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Book Link Alex C. Oehler, Berghahn Books, 2020 Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy.…
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Researchers at UBC Anthropology seek collaborators for an open access, mapping project: Ecologies of Harm: Mapping Contexts of Vulnerability in the Time of Covid-19. This work is intended as a public resource. Ecologies…
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The Canadian Anthropology Society is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize. Established in 2018, the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize recognizes outstanding anthropological publications in either French or…
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CASCA 2021 will be a virtual event held between May 12-15 and hosted by the University of Guelph, Ontario. The program and a Q&A document with information about the conference platform are now available.
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CASCA is delighted to announce the inaugural recipients of the CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (2021). Congratulations! CATE – Instructor Dr. Shiva (Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology from the University of…
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Dr. Janice Graham, Dalhousie University, published “Principles and Practices for Vaccine Trust“, The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2021 Dr. Shayne A. P. Dahl, McMaster University, won a postdoctoral fellowship at the…
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Book Link Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, University of Nebraska Press, 2021 The series Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context,…
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Book Link Pamela J. Downe, University of Toronto Press, 2021 Collective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan’s HIV epidemic. Based on a…
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Book Link Edited by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon, University of Toronto Press, 2020 While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes…
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Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia, University of Washington Press, 2020 Shifting Livelihoods emerged from the eighteen months I spent learning how to mine gold with hand tools in…
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Book Link David R. Gray, 2020, Royal BC Museum This new book tells the fascinating story of the people and community of Tod Inlet, near Victoria, BC. The author draws from archaeological surveys, interviews with elders…
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Dr Francine Saillant The Annual SSHRC Impact Awards celebrate greatest talent in Canada’s social sciences and humanities research community. OTTAWA, ON, Dec. 7, 2020 /CNW/ – Each year, the Social Sciences and Humanities…
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David Paul Lumsden June 9th, 1943 – May 27th, 2020 Please see the following in memory of anthropologist David Lumsden: https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/06/14/passings-professor-emeritus-david-lumsden/ and…
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J. E. Michael Kew (1932-2020) Professor J. E. Michael Kew (Mike to those of us who knew him), was born in Quesnel, BC in 1932, and departed this life on November 22, 2020 in Vancouver, BC. He was one of the North West…
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Jill M. Le Clair, PhD February 6, 1947 – October 24, 2020 Jill’s family and friends are saddened to announce her sudden death on Saturday, October 24, 2020 in Toronto. Jill was born in England and came to Canada with…
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By Louise de la Gorgendière, Carleton University, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Faculty) In what ways do we, as ‘anthropology teachers’, provide opportunities for our students to better…
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Book Link Sarah Hillewaert, Fordham University Press, 2019 This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya’s island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of…
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Book Link Kenneth Little, Berghahn Books, 2020 There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven…
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Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed/Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land A 22-Year Journey from Interviewing to Publication After over 20 years in the making, Our…
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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 winner of the 2021 Salisbury…
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By Evan Koike, University of British Columbia (Winner of the 2016 Salisbury Award) In twenty-first-century Japan, mounting demographic pressures, the needs of heterosexual, married parents of young children, and…
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By Abra Wenzel, Carleton University (Winner of the 2019 Salisbury Award) My interest in Indigenous women textile artists in the Great Slave Lake region of the Northwest Territories (NWT) began in 2015. At the time I was…
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Book Link Kathleen Bolling Lowrey, University Press of Colorado, 2020 In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey provides an innovative and expansive study of…
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Book Link Richard H. Robbins, Rachel Dowty, Maggie Cummings, and Karen McGarry, Cengage, 2021 Taking a unique, problem-based approach, the fourth Canadian edition of this text encourages students to apply a critical…
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By Rhiannon Mosher, Ontario Public Service Anthropologists excel at taking into account the multiple perspectives of differently situated social actors and examining how broad social processes affect people’s everyday…
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Book Link Eric S. Henry, Cornell University Press, 2021 In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language…
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Book Link Edited by Janice E. Graham, Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and Regna Darnell, UBC Press, 2021 Through twelve ethnographic case studies, The Social Life of Standards reveals how standards – political and…
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Dr. Francine Saillant It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr Francine Saillant from Laval University with the Weaver-Tremblay Award during the CASCA 2021 Virtual Conference at Guelph. This award…
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Congratulations to Wendy Wickwire whose book At the Bridge: James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging is the 2020 winner of the Canadian Studies Network Best Book in Canadian Studies Prize! This prize is awarded to an…
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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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(La version française suit) CASCA 2021 Annual Meeting at University of Guelph CASCA 2021 will be a virtual event held between May 12-15 and hosted by the University of Guelph, Ontario. The program and a Q&A document…
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Congratulations – Wendy Wickwire awarded the CSN-RÉC Book Prize Congratulations to Wendy Wickwire whose book At the Bridge: James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging is the 2020 winner of the Canadian Studies Network…
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By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia, University of Washington Press, 2020 Shifting Livelihoods emerged from the eighteen months I spent…
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Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet By David R. Gray, 2020, Royal BC Museum https://shop.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/product/deep-and-sheltered-waters/ This new book tells the fascinating story of the people and…
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(English follows) Nous avons le privilège de vous annoncer que nous remettrons à Professeure Francine Saillant, de l’Université Laval, le prix Weaver-Tremblay lors du congrès de la CASCA 2021 à Guelph. Ce prix en…
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By/par Maggie Cummings, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) Welcome to the Spring 2021 Issue of Culture, the newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology…
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Submitted by Naomi M. McPherson, Assoc Prof Emerita, Anthropology, UBC (Header photo: David Reese Counts, 2002, courtesy of Rebecca Counts) Renowned for his kind and warm smile, it is in character that David would die…
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(English follows) La CASCA est ravie de dévoiler les tout premiers récipiendaires du Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (PEEC 2021). Toutes nos félicitations! PEEC – Personnel chargé de cours M. Shiva,…
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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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(English follows) Le gouvernement du Canada rend hommage aux meilleurs chercheurs en sciences humaines du Canada Les prix Impacts annuels du CRSH soulignent les accomplissements des plus grands chercheurs en sciences…
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By Amirpouyan Shiva, University of British Columbia, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Instructor) Interactive teaching has been all the rage for some time now. One of the first challenges posed by…
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By Evan Koike, University of British Columbia (Winner of the 2016 Salisbury Award) In twenty-first-century Japan, mounting demographic pressures, the needs of heterosexual, married parents of young children, and…
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By Abra Wenzel, Carleton University (Winner of the 2019 Salisbury Award) My interest in Indigenous women textile artists in the Great Slave Lake region of the Northwest Territories (NWT) began in 2015. At the time I was…
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By Rhiannon Mosher, Ontario Public Service Anthropologists excel at taking into account the multiple perspectives of differently situated social actors and examining how broad social processes affect people’s everyday…
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Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition) By Richard H. Robbins, Rachel Dowty, Maggie Cummings, and Karen McGarry, Cengage, 2021…
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À la reconquête de la souveraineté : mouvements autochtones en Amérique latine et en Océanie Sous la direction de Natacha Gagné, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020…
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The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China By Eric S. Henry, Cornell University Press, 2021 cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501754906/the-future-conditional In The Future…
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The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement Edited by Janice E. Graham, Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and Regna Darnell, UBC Press, 2021…
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Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey, University Press of Colorado, 2020…
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