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Volume 6, Issue 2
October 2011
Anthropology news
Upcoming Department
Events 1
Upcoming Department
Deadlines 1
Opportunities 2
Congratulations 2
Announcements and
News 3
Presentations 9
Publications 10
Film Presentations 11
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I NS I D E T H IS IS S UE : Upcoming Department Events
4 October, Tuesday, 11:30, Anso 2107 Department Meeting 6 October, Thursday, 11:30-1:00, ANSO 134 Colloquia Series Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Institute of Asian Research, UBC Being Connected and Belonging to the Dutch East Indies: Recollections of Street Sellers 27 October, Thursday, 11:30-1:00, Michael Ames Theatre, MOA Colloquia Series Luke Eric Lassiter, Marshall University Collaborative, Participatory Research in Anthropology: Concerning its current Conditions and Future Trajectories 3 November, Thursday, 11:30-1:00, ANSO 134 Colloquia Series Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, University of Wisconsin Changing Perspective of the Indus Civilization: Recent Discoveries in Pakistan and India
Upcoming Department Deadlines
17 October, Monday, before 3:30 pm Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship For interested doctoral students, please submit your applications to the Anth Graduate Office (Anso 2124) http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship
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Opportunities Graduate Student Funding Opportunity As part of a multi-year NSF-Arctic Social Sciences funded archaeology project investigating native copper innovation and social complexity in northwest North America I anticipate funding two beginning graduate students (MA or PhD) starting fall semester 2012 in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. The funding package would include at minimum a two-year Research Assistantship (RA) (12 months in year 1 and 9 months in year 2 - includes tuition and fees). Depending on progress and status (PhD or advancement to PhD) students would be eligible for an additional 1-2 years of partial RA support, and would also be eligible for departmental Teaching Assistantships (TA) awarded on a competitive basis. If you will have completed a BA/BS or MA/MS degree in Anthropology (or Archaeology) before the start of the 2012-2013 academic year, and are interested in thesis/dissertation research that uses GIS or site-mapping software to perform spatial analysis of northern hunter-gatherer archaeology and technology, specifically native copper innovation, I encourage you to email me directly at [email protected] to learn more. The deadline for application to Purdue’s Anthropology graduate program is January 1st, 2012. Purdue is located in northwest Indiana, one hour from Indianapolis and two hours from Chicago. NSF Award Abstract: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1108250&WT.z_pims_id=13425
Congratulations from John Barker, Department Head
I’m very pleased to announce that 2011 Julie Cruikshank Prize for Outstanding M.A.
Thesis goes to Natasha Lucia Damiano Paterson for her thesis, "Family, Loss, and Place:
Everyday Experiences of Hereditary Cancer in a First Nation Community." Natasha will
receive a $60 book award in recognition of her accomplishment.
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Announcements and News
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A feature article detailing Dr. Mike Richards’ contribution to several forensic cases in the office of the BC Coroner. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Homicide+history+Coroner+anthropologist+solve+bone+mysteries/5328189/story.html Among other things, this work is a wonderful contribution to the community as well as a great demonstration of the benefits our new state of the art archaeology labs are already providing in a broad range of pure and applied research applications. Mascha Gugganig’s short film, “Hidden Practices”, is a featured post on the online edition of Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association. http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2011/10/03/hidden-practices/ Comparative Canadian and Taiwanese Policy regarding Indigenous people A group of Taiwanese Indigenous university students, selected for participation by the Council of Indigenous Peoples, affiliated with the Executive Yuan (federal government), visited the Department of Anthropology on September 6. They met for an hour and a half discussion with Bruce Miller and several graduate students. Professor Miller gave a talk on comparative Canadian and Taiwanese policy regarding Indigenous people and students asked a number of questions, primarily about the interactions of various levels of government with Indigenous communities and leadership.
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Imagine UBC Day – Undergraduate Anthropology Fair, September 6th The Department welcomes the new and returning undergraduate students
John Barker Bill McKellin Andrew Martindale
Department Head Undergraduate Studies Chair Undergraduate Committee Member
Anth Undergraduate Committee Members
Anthropology Student Association (ASA) spent the past weeks advertising the club trying to get new members In this is a picture from right – Tyler Thorpe, ASA President with ASA officers Theo and Michele in the ANSO foyer at the ASA booth.
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Department Orientation: New Graduate Students, September 6th.
John Barker Pat Moore
Department Head Graduate Studies Chair
Mike Richards Anthropology Graduate Student Association (AGSA) Graduate Committee Member Diana Moreiras, Ale Diaz, Morgan Moffitt, Diana Marsh
New Graduate Students
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Department Orientation: Graduate Teaching Assistants, September 6th.
John Barker Adam Solomonian, Maggie Woo & Eda Cakmakci
Department Head TA Workshop Facilitators
Anthropology Faculty Members and Grautae Teaching Assiatants
Anthropology Faculty Members and Grautae Teaching Assiatants
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Anthropology Family BBQ Lunch, September 6th
Grad to Grad Informal Session, September 6th
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Presentations Chris Arnett 2011 Rock Writings of the Stein River Valley. Presentations and field trip. Stein Valley Nlaka'pamux School, Lytton, B.C., September 29-30. John Barker 2011 “Christianity, Ethnicity and the Nation in Papua New Guinea.” Ethnic Interaction in the Context of Globalization in Southwest China and Its Relationship with Southeast Asia. National Research Center for Studies of Borderland Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China, Yunnan University, 18-20 June, 2011. Kunming, China. Alexia Bloch 2011 “Civic Engagement, Mandatory Citizenship, and Post-Soviet Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada,” Prepared for the conference Cultural Difference and Social Solidarity: Dividing and Uniting Communities, Beyond Multiculturalism. Middle East Technical University – Northern Cyprus, July 7, 2011 Carol E. Mayer 2011 “Contemporary Pacific Arts in International Institutions: Regional View and Critique.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Museums Association, Honolulu, September 26. Dana Lepofsky, Iain McKechnie, Trevor Orchard, Madonna L. Moss, Virginia L. Butler, Aubrey Cannon, Megan Caldwell and Fred Foster 2011 The Archaeology of Herring. Paper presented at the Herring School Workshop: Bringing together culture, ecology, and governance to support sustainability, Halpern Center, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, August 31. http://bit.ly/pmvnI8 Osman Ipsiroglu, Marlee McGuire, Bill McKellin 2011 “Insomnia and Restless Legs Syndrome in Chronic Care Management of Children with Neurodevelopmental Conditions: an Applied Medical Anthropology/Developmental Paediatrics Course for Undergraduates”. Poster presented at the Fetal Alcohol Canadian Expertise (FACE) Meeting, held in Stanhope, Prince Edward Island on September 13th 2011. Osman Ipsiroglu, Jacqueline Pei, Marlee McGuire, Roderick Houben, Christine Loock
2011 “The Bridge the Gaps Approach: Web-Based Help for Parents and Health Care Professionals for Sleep Problems in Children with FASD and other Neurodevelopmental Conditions”. Poster presented at the Fetal Alcohol Canadian Expertise (FACE) Meeting, held in Stanhope, Prince Edward Island on September 13th 2011.
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Bruce Miller 2011 Invited Discussant, Law and Society Author Meets Readers Lecture Series, UBC, September 30, 2011. Bruce Miller 2011 Invited talk, Oral History and Evidence Law. National Claims Research Workshop. Quebec City, September 27, 2011. Jory Stariwat 2011 Community Viability and the De-centering of Fishing Activities. Presentation at the 27th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change, held in Anchorage, Alaska on Sept. 14-17, 2011. Jory Stariwat 2011 Invited participation in "The Herring School Workshop: Bringing together culture, ecology, and governance to support sustainability" held at the Halpern Center, Simon Fraser University Aug. 31 - Sept. 2, 2011. Vancouver Sun coverage: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/WEEKEND+EXTRA+back+school+fish+scientists/5347440/story.html
Publications Mascha Gugganig 2011 Hidden practices: Demolished Houses and Anthropologists' Tools. Theme issue, "Renovation and Restoration," Anthropology News 52(7). Carol E. Mayer 2011 Expressions of Continuity and Reflections of Rupture: Contemporary Pacific Art in an Anthropology Museum In Pacific Island Artists: Navigating the Global Art World. Karen Stevenson, ed. Pp. 101-115. Masalai Press Carol E. Mayer 2011 Review of Photographing Papua: representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain. Max Quanchi. Journal of Pacific History, 46:139-140 Jennifer Kramer with Lyle Wilson 2011 “Surrealism – mapping and unmapping the Northwest Coast" Vancouver Art Gallery education series: The Surrealism Salon. VAG, Vancouver, September 20.
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Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes 2011 Indigeneity and consciousness in Brazil: Analyzing Sousa (1587) and Mendes Jr (1912). In Critique of Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 3 (Sept. 2011), pp. 185-209. Roberto Valcarcel Rojas, Darlene A. Weston, Jason E. Laffoon, Hayley L. Mickleburgh, and Anne van Duijvenbode A. 2011 El Chorro de Maita: A Diverse Approach to a Context of Diversity. In Communities in Contact: Essays in the Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Ethnography of the Amerindian Circum-Caribbean. Corinne L. Hofman and Anne van Duijvenbode, eds. Pp. 225-251. Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 225-251.
Film Presentation
Mascha Gugganig 2011 hidden practices. 7min. 7th Regard Bleu Festival for ethnographic student film and media. Völkerkundemuseum of the Universität Zürich. September 30th - October 2nd 2011.
Museum of Anthropology
MOA Curator Tours
Tuesdays, starting October 11, 1-2 pm (free with regular admission)
Learn about a different aspect of MOA’s collections from a different curator every week. Confirmed Tuesdays: October 11 (Karen Duffek), October 18 (Mauray Toutloff), October 25 (Carol Mayer), November 1 (Bill McLennan), November 8 (Pam Brown), December 6 (Jennifer Kramer).
ひろしま hiroshima Exhibition Opening Performances: Vancouver Chamber Choir and Takeo Yamashiro
Thursday, October 13, 7:00-9:00 pm, Great Hall, MOA (free; everyone welcome)
OFFSITE Conference: Arts of Conscience: From Hiroshima to Vancouver
Saturday, October 15, 10:00 am-5:00 pm, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 2 West Hastings Street, Vancouver (ticketed)
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Anthropology News is issued monthly Please send future contributions to: [email protected]
Editors: E. Asuncion & J. Barker Photos: E. Asuncion
Latest News
Resonating Spaces: Sounding out MOA
Composers in Residence at MOA October 3 –17, 2011 (Talk at Green College by Mark Pollard, October 4, 5 pm; student performances at MOA Oct 14 & 15. See "read more" for composers' bios)
Talks and Performances On Tuesday, October 4, at 5:00 pm, Professor Pollard will give a public talk,"Reconstructing the Familiar," at Green College, UBC, as part of the College's Principal's Series: "Thinking at the Edge of Reason: Interdisciplinarity in Action.
