Anthropologists everywhere! Filming heavy metal with Sam Dunn
The first time I met Sam Dunn was in the smoking room (when those still existed) of a dive-y bar that my cohort of Dalhousie MA students used…
Tag: music & art
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
More on racist mascots
In my house, we are already two months into baseball season — which also means the resurgence of critical blogs, news articles and discussions about racist mascots. We…
Indigenous fire management
Indigenous knowledge and practices are increasingly recognized and incorporated by non-Indigenous governments, businesses, and others into their own projects. While these engagements may often take th…
Indigenous fire management
Indigenous knowledge and practices are increasingly recognized and incorporated by non-Indigenous governments, businesses, and others into their own projects. While these engagements may often take th…
Imaginative Ethnography Syllabi (CIE)
The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography has gathered links to a number of syllabi that “attend to some combination of performance, theatre, visual media, writing and ethnography.” This treasure…
Indigenous cultural appropriation?
In June we posted an article from The Atlantic on The do’s and don’ts of Cultural Appropriation. In that post I suggested that the article, with its focus…
The dos & don’ts of Cultural Appropriation
In “The Dos and Don’ts of Cultural Appropriation” (2015, The Atlantic), author Jeni Avins argues that cultural appropriation can actually be a positive thing. Heavily focused on the…
The state of indigenous language and culture in Canada
The Canadian government’s program of cultural genocide in residential schools included the erasure of aboriginal languages. In Undoing Linguicide (an hour long audio documentary for CBC Radio’s Ideas…