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March 10, 2009Archaeology Day 2009The Department of Anthropology and the Laboratory of Archaeology invite you to Archaeology Day 2009. The theme this year is Archaeology at UBC and Beyond: Welcoming Our Neighbors. This event takes place this Saturday, March 14th, in room 207 in the ANSO building at UBC. For more information, see a pdf of the schedule here.
December 10, 2008Spotted on the New Book Truck
Kitchenspace : women, fiestas, and everyday life in central Mexico, by Maria Elisa Christie. Throughout the world, the kitchen is the heart of family and community life. Yet, while everyone has a story to tell about their grandmother's kitchen, the myriad activities that go on in this usually female world are often devalued, and little scholarly attention has been paid to this crucial space in which family, gender, and community relations are forged and maintained. To give the kitchen the prominence and respect it merits, Maria Elisa Christie here offers a pioneering ethnography of kitchenspace in three central Mexican communities, Xochimilco, Ocotepec, and Tetecala. December 3, 2008Spotted on the New Book Truck
Global indigenous media : cultures, poetics, and politics, edited by Pamela Wilson and Michelle Stewart. In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention. December 2, 2008Anthropology talksA reminder of two talks in the Anthro Department this week: Wednesday December 3, 11:30-1:00 @ AnSo 134 December 1, 20082008 Winter session exams
Winter session exams begin on December 3 and go until December 17. The Anthro exam schedule is here. Did you know the AMS has an exam database with final exams from a variety of undergrad courses? Studying from previous years' exams can be a great way to supplement your course knowledge and prepare for finals. Currently, the database has exams for these Anthro courses:
November 28, 2008new issue of New Proposals
The editors of New Proposals, a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library eJournal Project, are pleased to announce that the third issue, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2008) is now available. This issue contains four articles and two commentaries, including a paper by Brian Thom on treaty negotiations in BC, Diane Grant on sex workers and regulation as well as two interdisciplinary papers on theory (questions of regulation and Gramsci's idea of hegemony). The journal is online at http://www.newproposals.ca November 27, 2008database trial - eBraryUBC Library is running a trial of the eLibrary eBook platform. You can access the trial here: http://toby.library.ubc.ca/resources/infopage.cfm?id=1484 This trial provides access to eBrary's Academic Complete collection, which includes 37,000 books across 20 subject areas, including 100s of titles in Anthropology and Archaeology. Some sample titles of interest include:
November 26, 2008Spotted on the New Book Truck
Landscapes of clearance : archaeological and anthropological perspectives, edited by Angèle Smith and Amy Gazin-Schwartz. "This volume examines landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants—for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, by choice or by force-- and the social impacts of clearance on their populations. Using cases from five continents, and ranging from prehistoric, through colonial and post-colonial times, the contributors show landscapes as meaningful points of contestation when populations abandon them or are exiled from them. Acts of resistance and revitalization are also explored, demonstrating the social and political meaning of specific landscapes to individuals, groups, and nations, and how they help shape cultural identity and ideology."
November 25, 2008talk: Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet CountriesA reminder of tomorrow's talk by Laëtitia Atlani-Duault at 12:00 noon, AnSo 205 Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries: An Anthropological Perspective In this talk, based on her book of the same name, Prof. Atlani-Duault discusses the role of “that exotic tribe, humanitarian and development workers, along with their state and non-state partners, as they ‘export democracy’ to post-soviet countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University Nanterre, Paris, France and a frequent consultant with humanitarian and development aid agencies in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Asia. We have two of Dr.Atlani-Duault's books in Koerner Library: Humanitarian aid in post-Soviet countries : an anthropological perspective, plus the French original, Au bonheur des autres : anthropologie de l'aide humanitaire.
talk: The weight of the Vorkuta skyA reminder of today's talk by Hilary Pilkington, from 11:30am-1:00pm, AnSo 205: The weight of the Vorkuta sky: Young people's visual and verbal articulations of 'place' This paper is work in progress based on recently completed fieldwork in a deindustrialised city in the Russian far north undertaken under the auspices of a transnational European project on 'Subcultures and Lifestyles'. It considers how a common structural constraint on young people - 'place' - impacts upon their visual and verbal articulation of their everyday regardless of (sub)cultural affiliation. The paper outlines key tropes of young people's narratives about 'place', highlighting: the natural (landscape and territorial isolation); the social (Vorkuta's emergence as a city through forced and temporary settlement); and the cultural (the heritage of prison camp and criminal gang culture). The paper pays attention to: the comparisons and contrasts between respondent and researcher representations of a particular urban space; the fusions and dissonances between the visual and the verbal articulations of place among respondents; and the changing representation of their engagement with urban space by respondents over a period of four years of research. Finally, the paper considers how young people engage reflexively with these verbal and visual representations of place through symbolic displays and performances of the 'deviant' heritage of the city. Hilary Pilkington is a member of the Sociology department at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the study of Russian society especially youth cultural practice, drug use, migration and displacement, ethnic and national identity including Muslim identity and the rise of xenophobic sentiments. Books written or edited by Dr. Pilkington can be found in Koerner Library, including:
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