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By Betty J. Harris, Association for Africanist Anthropology, March 10, 2020 The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is pleased to announce the recipient of 2019 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award. Michael Lambek,…
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(La version française suit) It is my privilege to announce that we will be presenting Bruce Granville Miller, Doctor of Anthropology and Professor at the University of British Columbia, with the Weaver-Tremblay Award…
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Allies and Obstacles Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities By Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch Description Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism…
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(English follows) Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) est à la recherche de candidatures pour le Prix Labrecque-Lee. Créé en 2018, ce prix a comme visée de souligner une…
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(English follows) Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA pour une communication en anthropologie féministe Les étudiants des 2e et 3e cycles en anthropologie qui ont présenté une communication au colloque annuel…
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(La version française suit) Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating…
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‘Tiny acts of solidarity’ are bridging our social distance. Can they last? (The Star, March 29, 2020, Dr. Martha Radice, Dalhousie University) How the COVID-19 crisis could shape society (The Chronicle Herald, April 6,…
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We are pleased to announce the winners of CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes. Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer les gagnants des Prix d’affiches étudiantes 2019 de la CASCA : People’s Choice Award / Coup de cœur du public…
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By Nicolas Rasiulis, McGill University Spring Equinox, 2020, two days before my previously anticipated departure for Mongolia to conduct the majority of my PhD fieldwork. I recently vacated my apartment-become-home in…
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By Maria Ibari Ortega, Australian National University Amid global panic and local fears of contagion, acts of violence and aggression have multiplied at the time of accelerated transmission of the coronavirus…
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Par Pamela J. Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan La COVID-19 monopolise toutes les manchettes. Les taux d’incidence, le décompte des décès, les actions de la santé publique et les facteurs de risque sont mis à jour à…
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By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is sweeping headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, risk factors, and public health responses are updated with unprecedented frequency. Most anthropologists in…
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By Bicram Rijal, Simon Fraser University We are living in extremely uncertain times. With the global takeover by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have become humans that we are not used to, because our behavioural responses to…
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By Martha Radice, Dalhousie University and Visiting Scholar, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University I left my field site in New Orleans very quickly. On Mardi Gras day, February 25, I was one of many…
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By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) We live in gripping and uncertain times. People around the world have been through several…
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Extracting Home in the Oil Sands Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada, 1st Edition Edited by Clinton N. Westman, Tara L. Joly, Lena Gross Description The Canadian oil sands are one of the…
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Par Emmanuelle Bouchard-Bastien, Université Laval C’est le printemps, et bientôt les rivières du Québec prendront leurs aises dans les plaines inondables, car gonflées par la fonte des neiges. Pour certains acteurs…
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I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia Cassandra Hartblay, University of Toronto Press, 2020 I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia presents an…
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By Malcolm Blincow, Associate Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, York University & Ryan James, Instructor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, York University After a prolonged and courageous struggle with cancer, Marilyn…
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By Maggie Cummings, University of Toronto Scarborough In mid-March, like instructors of face-to-face classes across Canada, I found myself making the abrupt and rather ad hoc transition to online teaching. I began to…
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Par Marie Michèle Grenon, Université Laval Depuis plusieurs semaines, la pandémie de COVID-19 progresse dans l’ensemble des régions du monde et cause la mort de milliers de personnes. La vitesse de propagation du virus…
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The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at the Université Laval Department of Anthropology, where…
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(La version française suit) The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD candidate at a Canadian university. CASCA is delighted to announce that the…
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By Clint Westman, University of Saskatchewan In autumn 2019, I began doing fieldwork in a different province, on a new topic. After 10 years living in Saskatchewan, I wanted to launch a new project, actually doing…
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(English follows) À partir de 2016, la Société canadienne d’anthropologie a institué un nombre restreint de membres émérites à la CASCA lors de son assemblée générale annuelle. Membres de longue date, ces anthropologues…
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By James Depew, Algoma University & David Burty, Western University For capitalism to work at full speed it needs bodies entering into interaction with clock-like regularity. Now that the virus has transformed space…
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A Wikipedia page has been prepared for Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury (1926 – 1989), founder of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.
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Sahara Occidental Conflit oublié, population en mouvement Dirigé par Francesco Correale et Sébastien Boulay Résumé: Le conflit du Sahara Occidental reste peu connu et trop rarement documenté, en France en particulier.…
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StatsCan Survey – Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/survey/household/5311-COVID-19?fbclid=IwAR0s5cO2A4h78BUJ7VETpk0v9gNFWVKSiIpgdR4yBETD-jIEC1WEj49-mas Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur les…
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Undergraduate student research from the University of Saskatchewan On March 7, 2020, eight undergraduate and four graduate students presented at the Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Archaeology…
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By Mirjana Uzelac, University of Alberta I was ten years old when I faced my first apocalypse. It was 1991, and the war had started in Yugoslavia. It seemed like the end of the world. I lived in Serbia, and I remember…
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By Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan Two days before I was scheduled to teach a graduate class on campus, I received a message from my colleague and the primary teacher for the course. He had been sent home to…
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There Is No More Haiti Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett (Author) About the Book This is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a…
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By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, University of Guam On January 21, I flew from Taipei to Guåhan (Guam) to begin field research with the CHamoru, the Indigenous people of that unincorporated US…
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Wisdom Engaged Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series Edited by Leslie Main Johnson “I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here.…
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