News

Volume 8, Issue 02

October 2013

Anthropology

Department Events 1

Congratulations 2

News from the Laboratory of

Archaeology (LOA) 3

Announcements 3

Anthropology Summer

Field School Presentations 4

Presentations 6

Publications 7

Imagine UBC Day Highlights 9

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I N T H I S I S S U E : Department Events Anthropology Colloquia

3 October, 12:30 – 1:30, Peter Wall Institute For Advanced

Studies Seminar Room 307

Andrew Martindale Associate Professor, UBC Department

of Anthropology

Talk Title: “The Vulnerability of Archaeological Logic in

Aboriginal Rights and Titles Cases in Canada"

A free event, open to the public. Light lunch provided. Space is

limited, please register at: http://events.pwias.ubc.ca/wall-

hour

Anthropology Colloquia

17 October, 11:30 – 1:00, ANSO 134

Molly Malone PhD Candidate, UBC Department of

Anthropology

Talk Title: "Where the Water Meets the Land: Between Culture

and History in Upper Skagit Aboriginal Territory"

Archaeology Lab Nights

Every Tuesday this semester, 5:00-8:00 pm, Borden

Archaeological Research Room in MOA (Room 214)

Everyone is welcome, whether you’re a faculty member or grad

student with a project who is looking for help, or a grad

student or undergrad who wants to volunteer.

2014-2015 Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship

Department deadline: For interested doctoral students, please

submit your applications to the Anth Graduate Office (Anso

2124) before 4:00 pm on October 11, 2013 (Friday)

October 14th, Monday

Thanksgiving Day

University closed

October 25th, Friday

Last day for final

master's theses and

doctoral dissertations to

be accepted by the

Graduate and

Postdoctoral Studies for

November graduation.

Must be approved and

accepted by 4:00 pm.

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Congratulations

Leslie Robertson

The American Society for Ethnohistory awarded the Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the best

ethnohistory book of the year to Leslie Robertson and the Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan for Standing Up

with Ga’axsta’las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom.

The award committee wrote:

In this most innovative book, Robertson and the Gixsam Clan collectively write a book that will quickly

become a methodological model for ethnohistorians. The non-linear narrative, with the focus on an

interaction between the anthropologist, the indigenous community (Cook’s descendants), and the

memory of Cook, provides a way of dealing with memory and history through the presentation of

multiple voices. The book further challenges the dominant historiographical narrative in which Cook

(Ga’axsta’las), an indigenous activist and practicing Christian from the early twentieth-century, has been

seen as a critic of traditional indigenous practices. By understanding the memories of the descendants

and studying archival documents alongside oral histories, the authors of this work provide a more

complex narrative in which we begin to envision intercultural interaction leading to a changing

community and the complex negotiations of an individual activist trying to deal with and participate in

these changes. As one committee member stated, “The book models a collaborative process that more

and more of us will be challenged to undertake. I think the future of our profession is that we will be

expected to write with, rather than about, indigenous communities. That this book presented a cohesive

narrative about a woman whose life was so complicated and whose memory has been so contested by

weaving together the voices of so many contributors is stunning to me.

Clayton Whitt

Warmest congratulations to Clayton Whitt who has been awarded a SSHRC Vanier Scholarship

in support of his dissertation project, “Climate Change and Spatial Transformations in the

Bolivian Highlands.” We are delighted for Clayton and very proud of the outstanding record of

achievement our graduate students have established in award competitions in the past few years.

http://www.vanier.gc.ca/eng/spotlight-feux.aspx?p=908

Departmental Awards recipients:

Adam Solomonian Francis Reif Scholarship

Cordelia Frewen Michael AMES Scholarship in Museum Studies

Catherina Narcisse Wilson Duff Memorial Scholarship

Mascha Gugganig Sentinel Prize in Anthropology

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News from the Laboratory of Archaeology (LOA)

Darlene Weston will be the new Director of LOA and will serve for the duration of the academic

year. Thanks to former director, Sue Rowley, for all of her hard work!

LOA would like to extend a warm welcome to its newest member, Dr. Kevin Fisher from the Dept

of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies. Kevin specializes in pre- and proto-historic

Eastern Mediterranean archaeology and we are looking forward to seeing him in the labs.

Lastly, please note that Archaeology Lab Nights start Tuesday, September 23 and continue every

Tuesday this semester from 5-8 pm in the Borden Archaeological Research Room in MOA (Room

214). Everyone is welcome, whether you’re a faculty member or grad student with a project

who is looking for help, or a grad student or undergrad who wants to volunteer.

Announcements

Invitation to Book Launch Celebration for

Native Art of the Northwest Coast:

A History of Changing Ideas (UBC Press, 2013)

4-6PM Friday, October 25th

TASTE-Resto Lounge at 560 Club

560 Seymour Street, Vancouver

Appetizers, book for sale at discount,

and cash bar

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Anthropology Summer Field School

Coastal Field Archaeology in Huu-ay-aht Territory, July-August 2013 Coastal Field Archaeology had a successful 6-weeks at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre with

the support of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations and the UBC Laboratory of Archaeology. This was our

second year of fieldwork in Huu-ay-aht territory on the south side of Barkley Sound on the west

Coast of Vancouver Island. While there are a large number of previously surveyed and recorded

archaeological sites in the territory, only a tiny fraction have been investigated by archaeologists.

We added detail to this history by working at three significant places identified by Huu-ay-aht

elders and government officials and even identified several previously unrecorded sites.

With the guidance of Larry Johnson, Director of the Huu-ay-aht Lands and Resources

Department, the support of the Huu-ay-aht executive council, the Bamfield Marine Science

Centre and the Laboratory of Archaeology and the Department of Anthropology, we are

extremely fortunate to have this educational and research opportunity. In 2013, there were 14

students (eight of which were from UBC-Vancouver and one from UBC-Okanagan), two Huu-

ay-aht youth from Anacla, two instructors, and a teaching assistant.

We completed four weeks of fieldwork including excavation, mapping, and forestry and

intertidal survey. We also had the opportunity to visit a few incredible Huu-ay-aht

archaeological sites both inland and on the coast including the 5,000 year old site of Huu7ii in

the Deer Group Islands and the Kiix?in Village and Fortress National Historic Site. Seminars and

lectures were generously provided by Denis St. Claire, Alan McMillan, Jon Driver, Tim

Spaanheden Dencker, Tracy Friedel, and Lauren Harding. We spent the final two weeks of the

course in the fantastic laboratory facilities at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre processing our

recovered samples, analyzing data and writing up results for submission to the Huu-ay-aht First

Nations and the BC Archaeology Branch.

The last Friday of the course we had the chance to host a lunch for Huu-ay-aht community

members where we presented an interpretive display of our findings as well as the equipment

and techniques we used to conduct archaeological research in the territory.

We thank everyone who supported the course and particularly thank the students for their hard

work.

Iain McKechnie and Nicole Smith Coastal Field Archaeology Co-instructors

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The 2013

Coastal Field

Archaeology

course on an

intertidal

gradient

Taking a brief break from excavation

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Presentations

John Barker

2013 “Why Anthropologists Should Care: The Death and Resurrection of Materiality in

Anthropological Studies of Christianity.” Who Cares: The Material Heritage of British Missions in

Africa and the Pacific, and Its Future, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, June 11, 2013.

Millie Creighton

2013 'DON'T FORGET THAT DAY, DON'T FORGET: Personal, Local, and National Narratives of

Reflection, Recollection and Representation Surrounding Tohoku, Japan's 311 Disaster' at the

special conference on Reflection, Memorialization and Ethnographies of 3.11 held at Sophia

University in Tokyo, Japan on June 28, 2013.

Leaving the Beach with the BMSC

boats after a day of

surveying and

mapping

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Millie Creighton

2013 'Japan's Department Stores as a Window on Japanese Culture: Reflecting Social Shifts, Past

Times and Future Possibilities' at the National Museum of Ethnology (Kokuritsu Minzokugaku

Hakabutsukan) in Osaka, Japan, on July 10, 2013.

Millie Creighton

2013 'My Long Engagements with Research in Japanese Studies' at Kobe College (Kobe Jogakuin

Daigaku) in Kobe/Nishinomiya, Japan on 17 July 2013.

Millie Creighton

2013 'Japan's Department Stores, Staging and Packaging Japanese Culture' at Okayama

University in Okayama, Japan on July 26, 2013.

William H. McKellin

2013 Negotiating Genres in Managalase (PNG) Political Discourse. In 12th International

Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Edmonton, Canada. June 24, 2013.

William H. McKellin

2013 Parents Making Sense of Diagnoses and Care: Experiences of Parents of Children with

Complex Medical Conditions. In Neuropsychiatry Rounds. BC Children’s Hospital, June 4, 2013.

Publications

John Barker

2013 “Going by the Book: Missionary Views.” In Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer and

Ki-ke-in (eds.), The Construction of Northwest Coast Art: An Anthology, pp. 234-64. Vancouver:

UBC Press.

John Barker

2013 Review of “Out of Place: Madness in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea,” by Michael

Goddard. Pacific Affairs 86(3):696-98.

John Barker

2013 “Oceanic Religion.” In M. Rappaport (ed.), The Pacific Islands: Environment and Society,

2nd ed., pp. 214-24. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

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Millie Creighton

2011 'Revisiting Shame and Guilt Cultures: A Forty-Year Pilgrimage' pp. 192-221 in Culture,

Cultures and Intercultural Communication: A Cross Disciplinary Reader, ed. by Ling Chen.

Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Townsend-Gault, Charlotte, Jennifer Kramer and Ki-ke-in, Eds.

2013 Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Jennifer Kramer

2013 "Fighting with Property": The Double-Edged Character of Ownership. In Native Art of the

Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas. Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and

Ki-Ke-in, eds. Pp.720-756. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Townsend-Gault, Charlotte, Jennifer Kramer and Ki-ke-in

2013 Introduction: The Idea of Northwest Coast Native Art. In Native Art of the Northwest Coast:

A History of Changing Ideas. Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ki-Ke-in, eds.

Pp.1-14. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Andrew Martindale

2013 "Thresholds of Meaning: Voice, Time, and Epistemology: the Archaeological Consideration

of NW Coast Art". In Native Art of the Northwest Coast. Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer

Kramer, and Ki-ke-in, eds. pp. 92-127. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Pitcher, Tony, Mimi Lam, Cameron Ainsworth, Andrew Martindale, Katrina Nakamura,Ian Perry,

and Trevor Ward

2013 “Improvements to the ‘Rapfish’ rapid evaluation technique for fisheries: integrating

ecological and human dimensions.” Journal of Fish Biology. doi: 10.1111/jfb.12122

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Imagine UBC Day Highlights

Department Orientation: New Graduate Students, September 3rd

Department Co-Heads, Dr. Pat Moore and Dr. Sue Rowley with the AGSC Committee Members and AGSA

officers welcome the new Anthropology PhD and MA students

Photo below: The GSS President Christopher Roach, gave a short talk about Graduate Student Society (GSS)

UBC

Welcome New Graduate Students:

PhD:

Daniel Brasil, Catherine Cooper, Emma

Feltes, Cordelia Frewen, Steffan Gordon,

Evan Koike, Daniel Manson, Heather

Robertson, Martina Volfova, Megan Wong

MA:

Joseph Hepburn, Eva Marley Lindsay

Moore, Madeline Moore, Justin Raycraft,

Kate Roth, Danielle Thrasher, Krista

Zawadski

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Undergraduate Anthropology Fair, September 3rd: Explore the possibilities

Dr. Andrew Martindale, Chair of the Anthropology

Undergraduate Studies welcomes the Anthropology

Undergraduate Students with the Undergraduate

Studies Committee members.

Get involved: join the Anthropology Student Association (ASA) Get focus: become an Anthropology Major Get experience: research opportunities

Get to class: what we offer

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Anthropology Graduate Teaching Assistants Orientation, September 3rd

Anthropology Family BBQ Lunch, September 3rd

Daria Boltokova Clayton Whitt Michael Stewart & Sage Ponder (ANTH TA Co-Facilitator) (ANTH TA Co-Facilitator) (CUPE 2278Rep)

Faculty and Graduate Teaching Assistants

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Museum of Anthropology

Faculty of Arts Department of Anthropology

6303 N.W. Marine Drive

Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1

604-822-2878

604-822-6161

Anth.Dept@ubc.ca Anth.Grad@ubc.ca

Anth.Ugrad@ubc.ca

http://www.anth.ubc.ca

Exhibitions The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926 – 2011 October 25, 2013 - March 30, 2014 | MOA Opening Reception, Saturday, October 26, 7:00pm - 9:00pm | MOA Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael's Residential School Until March 2, 2014 | MOA Anspayaxw: an installation for voice, image and sound by John Wynne Until October 26, 2013 | Satellite Gallery Programs Voices of the Canoe: Launch of MOA Educational Website Tuesday, October 8, 3:30pm - 7:00pm | MOA Speaking to Indian Residential School Tuesday, October 15, 7:00pm - 8:30pm | MOA Opening Reception: The Marvellous Real: Art from Mexico, 1926 - 2011 Saturday, October 26, 7:00pm - 9:00pm | MOA Curator Tour: Everything Strange, Everything Amazing Sunday, October 27, 1:00pm - 2:00pm | MOA

MOA Staff Tours

Tuesdays | MOA

Learn about MOA's collections from a different staff member every

week. Read more

October 1: Mawuena Glymin, IT Manager

October 8: Mauray Toutloff, Conservator

October 15: Pam Brown, Curator, Pacific Northwest

October 22: Bill McLennan, Curator, Pacific Northwest

October 29: Karen Duffek, Curator, Contemporary Visual Arts &

Pacific Northwest

To find out more, please click here: http://moa.ubc.ca/

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Editor: E. Asuncion

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