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Field School in Nepal in Summer 2025
November 4, 2024
Announcement, Students
Apply by Nov. 8 | Hugh Gusterson's Lind Initiative Seminar
October 31, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
Anthropology & Surveillance Webinar
October 29, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Research
A Homecoming for Digital Himalaya
October 29, 2024
Achievement, Students
Caroline Stampliaka Receives American Folklore Society Award
October 28, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty
Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico's Disappeared from the War on Drugs
October 28, 2024
Achievement, Research, Students
Sisi Yang Named 2024-25 IAR Research Fellow
October 28, 2024
Event Highlight, Research, Students
PhD Candidate Felix Giroux Presents at Harvard University
October 28, 2024
In the Media, Research, Students
Why Swachh Bharat is a Clean Mission, but a Dirty Job
October 28, 2024
Achievement, Event Highlight, Faculty
Millie Creighton's 35 years of service at UBC recognized in Tempus Fugit Ceremony
October 28, 2024
Achievement, Faculty, Research
Vinay Kamat Receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
October 28, 2024
Faculty, Research
The State of Disaster and Resilience Literature in British Columbia
October 25, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
Hugh Gusterson featured on Examining Totalitarianism Trends Podcast
October 25, 2024
Announcement, Students
Field School in Alaska with Kristen Barnett
October 11, 2024
Announcement, Students
Field School in Sardinia with Sabina Magliocco in Summer 2025
October 8, 2024
Alumni
Alumni Q & A with Jad Brake
September 23, 2024
Students
Sisi Yang Participates in Write to Change the World OpEd Project
September 23, 2024
Announcement
Religion, Death & the Senses
September 23, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research
Congratulations to our SSHRC Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant Awardees
September 13, 2024
Announcement
Call for Nominations: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
September 6, 2024
Announcement
2024/25 Anthropology Colloquium Series Fall Line Up Announced
September 6, 2024
Announcement, Students
The Ethnograph is Open for Submissions and Volunteers
August 30, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Disciplining subjectivity in Australian migrant deterrence campaigns
August 30, 2024
Announcement, Research
A moral economy of care: How clinical discourses perpetuate Indigenous-specific discrimination and racism in western Canadian emergency departments
August 30, 2024
Announcement
Megan Muller da Silva Appointed Co-Chair of CASCA Medical Anthropology Network
August 30, 2024
Students
Congratulations Prisha Vaidya
August 30, 2024
Faculty
Millie Creighton on Teaching the Way of Tea
August 30, 2024
Faculty
Faculty in Sardinia
August 30, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
Sabina Magliocco Interviewed by Folkwise
August 30, 2024
Faculty, Featured
Q&A with Dr. Sam Walker
August 27, 2024
Faculty
The Administration of Everyday Life in Nepal: A Special Issue of Anthropological Quarterly
July 23, 2024
Faculty, Research
Enhancing campus resilience in response to climate hazards
July 23, 2024
What We Can Learn From Anthropology
July 11, 2024
Faculty, In the Media, Research
Capitalism and Colonialism – Settler and First Nation: An Uneasy History
July 8, 2024
In the Media, Students
Protecting India’s Sanitation Workers: Addressing Period Taboos in Menstrual Waste Management
June 26, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
More Female Peacekeepers Essential to Protect Children in Conflict Zones
June 26, 2024
Students
Amrit Tamang Receives 2024 Himalayan Studies Fellowship
May 28, 2024
Alumni
Eloise Spitzer (BA '63) Receives Honorary Law Degree
May 28, 2024
Achievement, Faculty
Bruce Miller Receives 2023 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing
May 27, 2024
2024 Anthropology Student Awards
May 27, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
Amir Shiva and Zahra Hayat Receive Undergraduate Teaching Award
May 26, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Students
Congratulations to the Anthropology Graduating Class of 2024!
May 24, 2024
Announcement, Students
The Ethnograph, Volume 8 Now Available
May 14, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth
May 10, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
Beneath the Surface of Things: New Book of Essays By Wade Davis
May 10, 2024
Jiaqi Wang receives CMS International Art Competition Award for Poetry
May 10, 2024
Announcement, Faculty
Alexia Bloch and Elif Sari Participate in CMS Research Conference
May 7, 2024
Announcement
MOA and LOA Statement of Cooperation
May 6, 2024
Faculty, Featured, In the Media
Is There Something Fishy About the Polygraph?
April 30, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Sara Shneiderman Receives Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring
April 30, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty
The Canadian Archaeological Association Working Group on Unmarked Graves Receives GG Innovation Award
April 30, 2024
Announcement, Research
Exploring K’ómoks Long-term Indigenous Fishering and Management Practices for Herring and Salmon
April 22, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty
Amirpouyan Shiva Receives Killam Teaching Prize
April 17, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Research Clusters Renewed in 2024
March 26, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
Associate Faculty Member Dr. Danya Fast New Book Raises Tough Questions
March 25, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research
New Research Cluster Led by Camilla Speller Aims to Help Decolonize Curation
March 22, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Sara Shneiderman Receives Killam Research Fellowship
March 22, 2024
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Helena Zeweri Receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant
March 22, 2024
Anthropology Student Receives Climate Storytelling Fellowship
March 22, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Research
Dr. Kristen Barnett named Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Archaeology
March 20, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
Opiates and the Masses: Populist Oligarchy and the Totalitarian Itch in the U.S.
March 20, 2024
Achievement, Announcement, Students
2023-2024 Anthropology Dissertation Writing Award
March 20, 2024
Announcement
UBC Library Offers New Anthropology Resource
March 20, 2024
Research, Students
Urban Ethnographic Field School Application Deadline Extended to March 29
March 12, 2024
Alumni
Emily Leischner Receives Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Fellowship
February 28, 2024
Alumni
Bendi Tso Receives Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Stanford
February 28, 2024
Faculty, In the Media
Diaspora, War, Gaza
February 22, 2024
Seeing our World in 16:9 Aspect Ratio, an Indigenous Film Journey
February 21, 2024
In the Media, Students
Temporal Recalibrations: Learning to See in the Liminal Spaces of Post-Wildfire Landscapes
February 21, 2024
Faculty
Millie Creighton on Japan, Past and Present
February 21, 2024
Announcement, Students
New Summer 2024 Courses
February 13, 2024
Announcement
Susan Webster to Speak at Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference
January 29, 2024
Announcement
Between Care and Criminality: New Book by Dr. Helena Zeweri
January 29, 2024
Announcement, Students
First Annual Anthropology TA Awards
January 29, 2024
Announcement, Students
Karen Thomas receives Charles and Alice Borden Fellowship
January 29, 2024
Announcement, Students
Sophie Mckenzie Receives John Bodley Student Travel Award
January 29, 2024
Faculty
Dr. Helena Zeweri Coordinates Borders Research Group
January 29, 2024
Faculty
Future-Proofing Your Town Sounds Great, Until You Try It
January 29, 2024
Achievement, Students
Moira Irvine Archaeological Research Fund Awardees
December 1, 2023
Achievement, Announcement, Faculty, Featured, Research
Dr. Andrew Martindale work with Indigenous Communities recognized with SSHRC Impact Award
November 24, 2023
Announcement, Featured
Anthropology researchers co-direct new collaborative research hub, part of NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science partnership
November 21, 2023
Publication Round Up December 2023
November 15, 2023
Achievement, Faculty
Sara Shneiderman Receives Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring
November 14, 2023
Faculty, In the Media
Faculty in the News - December 2023 Round Up
November 12, 2023
Announcement, Faculty
Leslie Robertson promoted to Full Professor
November 7, 2023
Announcement, Students
Celebrating Fall 2023 Graduation
November 1, 2023
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Celebrating 25 Years of Cooperative Research with Gitxaala
October 23, 2023
Announcement, Faculty, Research
Disaster Resilience Research Network receives funding from BC Ministry
October 20, 2023
Announcement
Cheslatta Carrier First Nation Visit LOA
October 4, 2023
Students
2023 Urban Ethnographic Field School Dan Small Award
September 30, 2023
Announcement
Welcome to the 3Cs - Coffee, Cookies, and Community!
September 14, 2023
Event Highlight, Featured
Save the Dates! ANTH Colloquia Series 2023-24
September 1, 2023
Announcement
Millie Creighton at the Powell Street Festival
August 6, 2023
Featured
ANTH Colloquia: “Contemporary Colonial Frontier Making: Thinking from the Operational Digital enclosure in Northwest China” by Professor Darren Byler
March 7, 2023
In the Media
ANTH/SOCI Annual Racial (In)justice Lecture by Professor Helena Hansen
March 6, 2023
Event Highlight, Featured
ANTH Colloquia: “Policy, Extractivism, Decolonization” by Professor Tess Lea
March 2, 2023
Featured
ANTH Colloquia: "Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples" By Bruce Miller
January 16, 2023
2022 President's Service Award for Excellence: Congratulations Patricia Ormerod
October 12, 2022
CRC in Indigenous Archaeology Dr. Kristen Barnett joins Anthropology
July 28, 2022
ANTH 202: Cool Media: The Graphic Art of Telling Tales by Dr. Nicola Levell
July 5, 2022
Prof. Andrew Martindale has been appointed as one of 10 members of the National Advisory Committee on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
July 5, 2022
ANTH303 “Anthropology of Childhood” by Dr. Aleksa Alaica
July 4, 2022
New Course: PPGA 591F, Neoliberalism and Policy by Professor Gusterson
June 9, 2022
Anth437- Gardens of Culture, Professor Tracey Heatherington
June 2, 2022
Evan Koike wins postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University
June 1, 2022
Anth 540C_ ANTHROPOCENE IMAGINARIES: Professor Tracey Heatherington
May 31, 2022
RGST 400: New Age and Neopagan Religions: Professor Sabina Magliocco
May 31, 2022
ANTH316 - Culture, Power, and Politics, Instructor: Dr. Helena Zeweri
May 24, 2022
Anthropology 495. The Last Class: Anthropology, the Indigenous World, and the State
March 22, 2022
Interview with Dr. Bruce Miller, “Expert Witness: An Inside Look at the Human Rights Tribunal System”
March 7, 2022
New Film Released: Basketball Warriors (A Production of the Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC)
February 4, 2022
Hugh Gusterson was interviewed by The Intercept for a story on the Biden Administration and drone warfare.
February 4, 2022
"Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia" by Dr. Kathryn Graber (Indiana University, Bloomington)
January 18, 2022
Annual Racial (in)Justice Lecture: “Colonialism and Modern Social Theory: Decolonising an Absence”, DATE Friday January 28, 2022 TIME 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
January 18, 2022
ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. David Geary, “Taking Selfies with the Buddha: tourists, pilgrims, and archaeological intimacies in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh”
October 26, 2021
ANTH Colloquia Series 2021-22: Dr. Darcy L. Mathews, “Relatives of the Deep: The Ethnoecology of a Lekwungen Archipelago in the Salish Sea”
October 26, 2021
Nicola Levell has won the American Anthropological Association’s Council of Museum Anthropology's 2021 Michael Ames Prize
October 18, 2021
Department deadline for Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships application: October 22, 2021 at 4:00 pm.
October 18, 2021
Students
Eric Simons and Katherine L. Nichols recent publication: "Archaeology’s Role in Finding Missing Indigenous Children in Canada"
October 1, 2021
Featured
New Course: Ethnography of the Pacific Islands: Melanesia
August 3, 2021
New Course: Molecular Archeology
July 20, 2021
New course: Archaeology of Ancient China
July 20, 2021
New course: Archaeology and Society
July 20, 2021
Announcement
Return to campus in fall 2021
June 1, 2021
Announcement
Statement on the Missing Children of the Kamloops Residential School
June 1, 2021
Achievement, Students
Congratulations on receiving the CASCA Outstanding Graduating Student Award!
May 21, 2021
Announcement
2021 Virtual Graduation Ceremony
May 18, 2021
Announcement
Register for the Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency Conference!
May 17, 2021
Achievement, Alumni
Postdocs awarded!
May 6, 2021
Featured, Students
Brianna Plant, President of the Anthropology Student Association for 2020-21
May 5, 2021
Announcement
Dr. Tracey Heatherington received a SSHRC Connections Grant to support "Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency."
May 4, 2021
Achievement, Students
Congratulations to Department of Anthropology Award Winners.
May 4, 2021
Achievement, Alumni
Gregory Gan (PhD 2019) was awarded first prize for his "Impossible Cities" installation...
May 3, 2021
Achievement
Dr. Wade Davis received the Public Service Award, Lifetime Achievement in Canada-Latin America Relations, Canadian Council for the Americas 2021.
May 3, 2021
Anthropology of Media: Now offered in-person or in a live virtual course
April 21, 2021
Achievement
Congratulations to Prof. Heather Robertson on receiving the Open Champion’s Award!
April 20, 2021
Achievement
Congratulations to Prof. Sabina Magliocco on receiving the Open Champion’s Award!
April 20, 2021
Alumni, Featured
Diana Marsh
April 15, 2021
Achievement, Students
ADOPTED BY TLINGIT, DESCENDED FROM MOHAWK: HOW LEARNING LINGÍT HELPED UBC STUDENT DISCOVER HER HISTORY AND STRIVE FOR A FUTURE OF RECIPROCAL, RESPECTFUL RESEARCH
April 6, 2021
The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Multilingual Immigrant Communities
March 31, 2021
Alumni, Featured
Dr. Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan
March 24, 2021
Faculty, Featured
Dr. Camilla Speller
March 24, 2021
Faculty, Featured
Tracey Heatherington
March 24, 2021
Featured, Students
Anudeep Dewan
March 24, 2021
Students
Robert Hanks
March 24, 2021
Featured, Students
Caitlyn Yates
March 24, 2021
Featured, Students
Younus Mushtaq Ahmed
March 24, 2021
Announcement, Students
Applying for the 2021 Sts’ailes Archaeology Field School
March 3, 2021
Anthropology in the News
February 10, 2021
Puppetry Exhibition Wins National Award and Officially Launches Virtual Exhibit!
January 5, 2021
New UBC Centre for Migration Studies
November 20, 2020
Welcome New Faculty!
November 19, 2020
Event Highlight
Anth Colloquia: Decolonizing Climate Knowledge: Expertise, Citizenship, and Technocratic Imagination in the Indian Himalayas
October 8, 2020
Event Highlight
Anth Colloquia: Drum Breach: Error Politics, Operational Temporalities, and the U.S. WIPP Nuclear Waste Repository's Kitty Litter Accident
September 30, 2020
Event Highlight
Anth Colloquia: Faculty and Grad Roundtable on Research During A Pandemic
September 13, 2020
Announcement
STATEMENT ON THE SCHOLAR STRIKE CANADA
September 9, 2020
Achievement, Faculty
Congratulations on your retirement!
September 8, 2020
Event Highlight, Faculty
The Faculty Brown Bag Lunch Series
September 6, 2020
3C: Coffee, Cookies, and Conversation!
September 6, 2020
Event Highlight
Upcoming Events
September 6, 2020
Faculty, In the Media, Research
Anthropology in the News
September 6, 2020
Announcement, Students
Status of Academic Year 2020-21
September 6, 2020
Anth 540B-002 Anthropology of Science and Technology
August 3, 2020
Anthropology Sessional Teaching — Winter 2020-21, Term 2
July 30, 2020
ANTH 303A-200 Ethnography of Special Areas
July 30, 2020
News from the President's Office
July 10, 2020
Anth 217-002: Culture and Communication
July 10, 2020
Anth 303A-002: Ethnography of Special Areas – Anthropology of the Middle East
July 10, 2020
ANTH 201A-002 Ethnic Relations
July 9, 2020
Research, Students
Anthropology Student Projects
July 9, 2020
Sts'ailes Archaeology Field School Documentary
July 7, 2020
First Ever ANTH Virtual Graduation Celebration
July 1, 2020
ARCL 235 Controlling Nature: Plant & Animal Domestication
June 22, 2020
Summer Term 2 online courses
June 22, 2020
ANTH 202A-001/RGST 200-001: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RELIGION
June 22, 2020
Department Brochure
June 18, 2020
Statement of Solidarity from the Dept of Anthropology, UBC
June 8, 2020
ANTH Virtual Graduation Celebration
June 2, 2020
Status of 2020 summer terms
April 25, 2020
UBC Behavioural Guidance: COVID-19 Research Restrictions
April 1, 2020
March 2020 Anthropology Newsletter
April 1, 2020
Status of Department of Anthropology in Relation to COVID-19
March 19, 2020
Archaeology Day Event Postponed
March 12, 2020
Q&A with Wall Scholar Mark Turin
March 10, 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Granville Miller
March 5, 2020
Dr. Julie Cruikshank awarded Polar Knowledge Canada’s 2019 Northern Science Award
February 20, 2020
Event Highlight
February 6, 2020 'Ambivalence in Korean Parent-Child Relationship
February 6, 2020
UBC ANTH Faculty Brown Bag Series: Charles Menzies
February 4, 2020
Ethnographic Approaches to Indigenous Mapping Seminar
January 30, 2020
Term 2 2019-2020 Colloquia
January 16, 2020
Faculty Brown Bag Talk Series: John Barker
January 9, 2020
Grad or Post-Doc TA for Practicing Medicine Course in New York City Summer 2020
December 9, 2019
UBC-O Post Doctoral Fellowship Opportunity for Homelessness Community Based Research Project
December 9, 2019
UBC Major External Awards Update
December 9, 2019
Mitacs Internship Opportunity - United Way of the Lower Mainland
December 9, 2019
4th Annual Concordia Graduate Conference's Call for Papers Deadline Extended
December 9, 2019
Office Holiday Hours
December 9, 2019
Event Highlight
December 3, 2019 'Reluctant Exiles to Voluntary Diaspora: Post 1997 Migrations from Hong Kong
December 3, 2019
The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Claudia Rankine
December 2, 2019
UBC First Year Experience (FYE) Educators’ Symposium
December 2, 2019
United States National Institute on Drug Abuse Funding Opportunity
December 2, 2019
BIPOC Connections: Staff and Faculty Lunch
December 2, 2019
Event Highlight
November 28, 2019 'Reverse Ethnography: Strategies for Recovering from Anthropological Search and Rescue
November 28, 2019
ASTU 4XX: Tools of Travel
November 26, 2019
ANTH 540: Humans and Animals
November 26, 2019
Isummiqtauniq: Thought Gift
November 25, 2019
November 2019 Anthropology Newsletter
November 25, 2019
Event Highlight
November 19, 2019. 'Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
November 19, 2019
Event Highlight
November 19, 2019 'A Career Dedicated to Researching Human/Plant World Making: The UBC Roots
November 19, 2019
Working Together to Enhance Ecosystem Sustainability: A Sylix/Settler Science Collaboration
November 19, 2019
2019 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Now Open
October 17, 2019
Recent Books by Faculty Members
October 17, 2019
Term 1 2019-2020 Colloquium
October 17, 2019
Anthropology Talk Series: Dr. Tracey Heatherington
October 16, 2019
Event Highlight
October 10, 2019 'Early monumental architecture and public ritual at La Blanca, Guatemala'
October 10, 2019
Event Highlight
September 26, 2019, 'Alternative Anthropologist: Navigating a Path Beyond the Academy
September 26, 2019
Event Highlight
September 26, 2019, 'When Forest Run Amok. Violence and its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories
September 26, 2019
Remembering Professor Emeritus Kenelm Burridge
May 28, 2019
Event Highlight
March 28, 2019, 'The Clam Garden Network'
March 28, 2019
Event Highlight
March 14, 2019, 'But is it really Anthropology?'
March 14, 2019
Event Highlight
January 31, 2019, 'Did Secret Societies Create Inequalities in the Upper Paleolithic?'
January 31, 2019
Event Highlight
January 24, 2019, 'Capacity, corporeality, containment: Boundary maintenance and social exclusion in Malaysia and Australia'
January 24, 2019
UBC Anth Colloquia: Molly Malone
January 21, 2019
Remembering Professor Emeritus, Cyril S. Belshaw
December 10, 2018
Event Highlight
November 29, 2018, 'Documentary as Present/Presence: Crises, community, and human-damaged landscapes'
November 29, 2018
Event Highlight
November 22, 2018, 'The Monkey as Mirror'
November 22, 2018
Event Highlight
November 1, 2018 'More-than-Human Democracy: On the Political Lives of Cows, Rivers, Mountains, and Gods in India’s Central Himalaya'
November 1, 2018
UBC Press 'Memory' book features members of our Department
October 9, 2018
Congratulations to the 2018-2019 Public Scholars Initiative Cohort
October 9, 2018
Event Highlight
October 4, 2018 'Secwepemc People, Land and Laws at Pípsell: Uncovering and reclaiming connections to place and knowledge'
October 4, 2018
Q&A with Dr. Camilla Speller, new UBC Anthropology professor
October 2, 2018
Ethnographic Film Unit to relocate into a purpose-built space
September 23, 2018
Remembering Professor Emeritus, Martin G. Silverman
July 13, 2018
Q&A with Alexia Bloch on her new book, Sex, Love, and Migration
June 23, 2018
New class: ANTH 206, Anthropology of the Supernatural
June 6, 2018
Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC
April 30, 2018
Dr. Vinay Kamat and Dr. Andrew Martindale awarded SSHRC Insight Grants in April 2018
April 9, 2018
Click here to RSVP for the Hawthorn Lecture
March 9, 2018
Event Highlight
Hawthorn Lecture: Marisol de la Cadena, “When Nature is not Only Nature? Stories from the Anthropo-not-seen"
January 25, 2018
Event Highlight
November 16, 2017, 'Can We Measure ‘Impacts’ to Culture? The Role of Anthropology in Canada’s Shifting Legal and Regulatory Regimes'
November 16, 2017
Disseminating the Findings of the Study “Natural Gas Projects and Community Development in East Africa”
November 9, 2017
Q&A with Daisy Rosenblum
November 9, 2017
Event Highlight
November 2, 2017, 'Repatriation from an Angolan Perspective: Politics, Advertising, and Business'
November 2, 2017
Event Highlight
October 19, 2017 'The Fire and the Rose are One: Eroticism and Ritual as Agents of Change in American Contemplative Christianity'
October 19, 2017
Coffee, Cookies and Conversations
October 9, 2017
Event Highlight
October 5, 2017 'Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Vernacular Ontologies and Animal Afterlives'
October 5, 2017
Sara Shneiderman receives SSHRC award to study Nepal’s post-earthquake reconstruction
September 10, 2017
Congratulations to Bruce Granville Miller, 2017 CASCA Fellow
September 6, 2017
Welcome Back from Michael Blake, Department Head
September 6, 2017
Q&A with Dr. Sabina Magliocco
September 6, 2017
Event Highlight
March 16, 2017 'Intangible and Archaeological Heritage; the Pixan of Santa Elena, Yucatan'
March 16, 2017
Event Highlight
February 9, 2017 'Offshore Extractions and the Everyday Life of a Refugee Economy in the Republic of Nauru'
February 9, 2017
Q&A with Leslie Robertson - Editor of BC Studies
January 10, 2017
Hawthorn Lecture: Sherry B. Ortner
December 30, 2016
UBC Anth Colloquia: Solen Roth
December 22, 2016
UBC Anth Colloquia: Jeong Shin An
December 21, 2016
Urban Ethnographic Field School
December 20, 2016
Q&A with Charles Menzies - Vancouver Faculty Representative to UBC’s Board of Governors
December 15, 2016
December 7, 2016
ANTH 302: Ethnography of South Asia
December 6, 2016
UBC ANTH Faculty Brown Bag Series: Sabina Magliocco
December 5, 2016
ARCL 228: Forensic Anthropology
December 2, 2016
ANTH 227: Introduction to Medical Anthropology
December 2, 2016
Constructed Coastlines of the Salish Sea
December 2, 2016
UBC Anth Colloquia: Chris Arnett and Colin Grier
December 1, 2016
ARCL 306 Summer Field School
December 1, 2016
Dr. Bruce Granville Miller, recipient of CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award
December 1, 2016
Brown Bag: Vinay Kamat
December 1, 2016
Call For Papers: UBC Annual 14th Archaeology Day
November 28, 2016
Coffee, Cookies, and Conversations
November 25, 2016
Event Highlight
November 24, 2016, 'Learning to Embody the Radically Empirical'
November 24, 2016
Welcome CASCA/AAA Attendees
November 13, 2016
Recent Publications
November 13, 2016
The Anthropology of Asia Talk Series: Dr. Ayami Nakatani
November 12, 2016
UBC Anth Colloquia: Dr. Laura Rival
November 11, 2016
Event Highlight
November 8, 2016, 'Art Talk: Gossip and Speculation about Market Change in the South Asian Art World”'
November 8, 2016
Event Highlight
November 7, 2016, 'The Science of Healing'
November 7, 2016
Event Highlight
October 27, 2016, 'From a Model to a Full Sized Angyaaq'
October 27, 2016
Event Highlight
October 20, 2016, 'I Heart Korea'
October 20, 2016
Colloquium with Dr. Alpa Shah
October 11, 2016
Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths: A Roundtable Discussion
October 11, 2016
A Green College Cross-sectoral Series
October 11, 2016
Remembering Kenelm Burridge
October 11, 2016
ANTH Talk: Dr. Hugh Gusterson
October 10, 2016
UBC Anth Colloquia: Dr. Margaret Bruchac
October 10, 2016
UBC Anth Colloquia: Chan Yuk Wah
October 10, 2016
Faculty Brown Bag: Dr. John Barker
October 9, 2016
Killam Award Announcement
October 9, 2016
UBC Climate Strike Resolution
October 9, 2016
March 14 Colloquium
October 7, 2016
Meet our Graduate Students
October 7, 2016
Join us for this year's event!
October 6, 2016
Event Highlight
October 6, 2016, 'People of the Saltwater'
October 6, 2016
Poster Conference 2019
October 5, 2016
March 28 Colloquium
October 4, 2016
President's Lecture on January 24
October 3, 2016
January 31 Colloquia
October 2, 2016
SSHRC Announcement
October 1, 2016
Term 2 Colloquia
September 30, 2016
Killam Fellowship Announcement
September 29, 2016
Voices of Ethnobiology
September 29, 2016
Remembering Cyril S. Belshaw
September 28, 2016
Graduate applications are available online
September 28, 2016
Q&A with new UBC Anthropology professor
September 26, 2016
Applications open until October 15
September 25, 2016
Ethnographic Film Unit to relocate to a purpose-built space
September 24, 2016
Congratulations to 2018-2019 PSI Scholars
September 23, 2016
Lab of Archaeology welcomes new staff
September 22, 2016
Meet the New Editor of BC Studies
September 22, 2016
Enrol today on the SSC
September 19, 2016
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
September 17, 2016
Book Release from Sara Shneiderman
September 16, 2016
2017-18 Term 2 Colloquia Series
September 15, 2016
Upcoming Poster Conference
September 14, 2016
Experiential Learning Opportunity
September 14, 2016
Enrol in ANTH100 on the SSC
September 14, 2016
Colloquium with Dr. Luisa Del Giudice
September 13, 2016
Join us on November 16
September 13, 2016
Congratulations to our colleagues
September 13, 2016
Apply now for ARCL 306
September 12, 2016
Hawthorn Lecture with Dr. Marisol de la Cadena
September 12, 2016
Vinay Kamat's CIRDI funded workshop
September 12, 2016
Our 2017-18 Colloquia Series Begins
September 9, 2016
October 5th Colloquium
September 8, 2016
Welcome Back from Dr. Michael Blake
September 6, 2016
Congratulations to Bruce Granville Miller
September 5, 2016
Welcome Dr. Sabina Magliocco
September 5, 2016
ANTH 540C
September 4, 2016
We're so proud!
September 4, 2016
Read Michael Kew's new publication
September 3, 2016
UBC Anth Faculty Brown Bag Series: Dr. Bruce Miller
September 3, 2016
Canadian Anthropology Society Award Winners
September 3, 2016
Book release from Kirsten Bell
September 2, 2016
Talk by Gideon Shelach-Lavi
September 2, 2016
Wall Institute Announcement
September 1, 2016
Congratulations to the Graduating Student Leaders
September 1, 2016
Congratulations Dr. Shneiderman on joining the Wall Institute
August 30, 2016
Sitara Thobani's Book Release
August 29, 2016
A Partnership with NASA
August 28, 2016
Congratulations Wade Davis
August 27, 2016
Colloquium with Laura Osorio
August 25, 2016
Marie Watt's Blanket Stories
August 25, 2016
On the Horizon - Poster Session
August 25, 2016
Q&A with Leslie Robertson
August 25, 2016
Happy Holidays from Anthropology
August 25, 2016
Charles Menzies - BOG Faculty Representative
August 25, 2016
Watch Dr. Shaylih Muehlmann's video for The Royal Society of Canada
August 25, 2016
Congratulations to the 2016 Vanier Scholars!
August 25, 2016
Congratulations Dr. Shaylih Ryan Muehlmann
August 25, 2016
Job Opening: Assistant Professor
August 25, 2016
Colloquium: Dr. Charles Menzies
August 25, 2016
Congratulations to the 2016 Banting Fellows!
August 25, 2016
Read Our Monthly Newsletter
August 25, 2016
Enroll in ANTH 540C today!
August 25, 2016
Graduate Student Stories
August 25, 2016
Congratulations Ms. Jessica DeChamplain
August 25, 2016
ANTH Imagine UBC and Back to School BBQ
August 23, 2016
Charles Menzies publishes new book
August 19, 2016
Graduate Student Orientation
July 26, 2016
Congratulations Dr. Michael Blake
June 29, 2016
Killam Doctoral Scholarship Recipients
June 27, 2016
Congratulations Yvonne Diamond
June 21, 2016
Congratulations to Eleanore Asuncion
June 15, 2016
Students learn about the Japanese Tea Ceremony
June 1, 2016
Our highly ranked department
April 1, 2016
Event Highlight
March 24, 2016, 'The State's Own Anthropology: Comparative Cases from California and Palestine'
March 24, 2016
Event Highlight
March 24, 2016, 'Keeping the Road Open: Waiting, Migrating and the Domestication of Hope in Kyrgyzstan'
March 24, 2016
Event Highlight
March 17, 2016, 'The Absorption Hypothesis: How People Learn to Hear God and Experience Spirituality'
March 17, 2016
Archaeology Day 2016: The Stuff of Lives: Materiality in Culture & Archaeology
March 9, 2016
Event Highlight
March 7, 2016, 'Men Are Animals: The Perils of Naturalizing Male Violence and Sexuality'
March 7, 2016
Dr. Bruce Miller’s new book published
February 26, 2016
Event Highlight
February 24, 2016, 'Edge-Effects: Remediating Crisis & Critique in the Ayoreo Video Project'
February 24, 2016
ANTH: Colloquium: Dr. Lucas Bessire
February 15, 2016
Event Highlight
February 4, 2016, 'The Historical Ecology of Cultural Keystone Species and Places of the Northwest Coast'
February 4, 2016
ANTH: Colloquium: Dr. Les Field
January 27, 2016
ANTH: Colloquium: Dr. Tanya Luhrmann
January 25, 2016
ANTH Colloquium: Dr. Matthew Gutmann
January 25, 2016
Anyang Field School
January 11, 2016
Event Highlight
December 3, 2015, 'An Assessment of Language Vitality among the Mako people of Venezuela and the Importance of Participant Observation Data'
December 3, 2015
Event Highlight
November 26, 2015, 'A book talk with Sara Shneiderman - Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India'
November 26, 2015
Event Highlight
November 12, 2015, 'Maize for the Gods — How a wild grass from western Mexico came to be one of the world’s most important crops'
November 12, 2015
Bruce Miller speaks at Heritage and Burials Policy Forum
November 9, 2015
ANTH Colloquium: Dr. Michael Blake
November 5, 2015
MA and PhD Programs
November 5, 2015
UBC ANTHROPOLOGY GRADUATE STUDIES
November 1, 2015
Tracey Heatherington: Seed Bombing the Anthropocene
October 11, 2015
Event Highlight
October 8, 2015, 'Permeable Bodies: Children, Cancer, and Biomedicine in Argentina'
October 8, 2015
Event Highlight
October 5, 2015, 'FROM SCIENCE to ART & BACK AGAIN: The Pendulum of an Environmental Anthropologist'
October 5, 2015
Register for ANTH 412
September 28, 2015
Event Highlight
September 24, 2015, 'Linking Language, Culture, and the Environment: Twenty years of Biocultural Diversity Research and Action'
September 24, 2015
Bruce Miller provides key testimony in BC Human Rights case
September 3, 2015
Spaces available for ARCL 232!
August 21, 2015
Dr. Michael Blake’s new book published
August 21, 2015
ORIENTATION FOR TAs AND INSTRUCTORS
August 13, 2015
UNDERGRADRADUATE ANTHROPOLOGY FAIR
August 13, 2015
ANTHROPOLOGY BBQ LUNCH
August 13, 2015
Rituals of Ethnicity Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India by Sara Shneiderman
August 12, 2015
Dr. Michael Blake's new book published
August 12, 2015
Dr. Sara Shneiderman’s new book published
August 12, 2015
NEW FALL & WINTER 2015-2016 COURSES
June 13, 2015
AWARD-WINNING FACULTY & STUDENTS
March 17, 2015
WORLD RANKING & UBC'S REPUTATION
March 16, 2015
HUMAN DIVERSITY & COMMONALITY
March 16, 2015
OUR REPUTATION FOR RESEARCH
March 16, 2015
ACCESS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY
March 16, 2015
Event Highlight
February 26, 2015, 'Non-Cock Fights: On Doing ‘Sex’ and Undoing ‘Gender’ in Shatila, Lebanon'
February 26, 2015
Event Highlight
February 24, 2015, 'To Come and Go: Transnational Life Between Mexico and Alaska'
February 24, 2015
Event Highlight
January 15, 2015, 'The Temporality of the Seascape in the Southern Strait of Georgia'
January 15, 2015
Event Highlight
November 27, 2014, 'Taiwan's Enigma: Recent Archaeological discoveries in Taiwan and their implications for the prehistory of Southeast Asia'
November 27, 2014
Event Highlight
November 13, 2014, 'Substance of Self-Determination: Language, Culture, Archives and Sovereignty'
November 13, 2014
Event Highlight
November 6, 2014, 'Transformations of Chinese Patriarchy'
November 6, 2014
Mark Turin’s BBC Radio series on language in Bhutan & Burma
October 17, 2014
Anthropology Colloquia: Transformations of Chinese Patriarchy
October 10, 2014
Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
October 10, 2014
GRADUATE STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC
October 1, 2014
Congratulations Michael Richards
September 17, 2014
Event Highlight
September 12, 2014, 'Ethical (W)Holistic Linguistics: Endangered Languages at the Crossroads of Social Science, Humanities, Science, and Community Activism'
September 12, 2014
Event Highlight
September 11, 2014, 'Spaces of Education, States of Ruination and Survival'
September 11, 2014
Archaeological Laboratory Partnership Course with Musqueam Indian Band
August 29, 2014
ANTH 220 with Dr. Charles Menzies
August 8, 2014
Mark Turin Featured on BBC Radio Series
August 8, 2014
NEW COURSE CODE – ARCL
July 18, 2014
Renowned linguist Mark Turin to helm UBC First Nations Languages Program
July 2, 2014
Take ANTH 100 with Dr. Wade Davis
June 25, 2014
New ANSO Community Food Garden
April 23, 2014
Event Highlight
February 6, 2014, 'Embracing Our Treasures: Nuxalk Ways of Being'
February 6, 2014
Event Highlight
January 30, 2014, 'Elephant-induced displacement and the power of choice: Moral Narratives about Resettlement in Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park'
January 30, 2014
Wade Davis, acclaimed anthropologist and author, joins the University of British Columbia (by UBC News)
December 18, 2013
Congratulations to Clayton Whitt
December 6, 2013
Event Highlight
November 14, 2013, 'Between Time and History: An Archaeology of Food and Settlement on the Northwest Coast'
November 14, 2013
Event Highlight
November 7, 2013, 'Mapping the Indigenous Divide: A Post-Indigenous Response to Colonization'
November 7, 2013
Event Highlight
October 17, 2013, 'Where the Water Meets the Land: Between Culture and History in Upper Skagit Aboriginal Territory'
October 17, 2013
Event Highlight
October 3, 2013, 'The Vulnerability of Archaeological Logic in Aboriginal Rights and Titles Cases in Canada'
October 3, 2013
Event Highlight
September 19, 2013, 'Secrets and Truths: Knowledge Practices of the Romanian Secret Police'
September 19, 2013
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May 9, 2013
UBC Archeology dig in Anyang, China – 2012
April 30, 2013
About Anthropology
April 5, 2013
About UBC
April 5, 2013
About Vancouver
April 5, 2013
Event Highlight
March 14, 2013, 'Reaching Marginalized Populations in the Cultural Shadows'
March 14, 2013
Event Highlight
February 28, 2013, 'Screening The Olympic City'
February 28, 2013
Congratulations to Vishala Parmasad
February 28, 2013
Photography Notice
February 6, 2013
Event Highlight
January 31, 2013, 'Onerous Ancestry: Researches Toward Being on the Right Side of History.'
January 31, 2013
Event Highlight
January 17, 2013, 'The ICT revolution comes to Melanesia: connectivity and mobile phone use in Papua New Guinea'
January 17, 2013
Event Highlight
November 22, 2012, 'Culturally Modified Capitalism. The Native Northwest Coast Artware Industry'
November 22, 2012
Event Highlight
November 1, 2012, 'The Anthropology (and Archaeology) of Numbers'
November 1, 2012
Event Highlight
October 18, 2012, 'Entangled in the Fur Trade: The Archaeology of Contact on the Lower Columbia River'
October 18, 2012
Event Highlight
October 4, 2012, 'Authorizing Moral Crusades: Rights Talk and Literary Trafficking'
October 4, 2012
Event Highlight
March 29, 2012, 'Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Bodies, Boundaries and Claims to Public Space'
March 29, 2012
Event Highlight
March 29, 2012, 'Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Bodies, Boundaries and Claims to Public Space'
March 29, 2012
Event Highlight
March 1, 2012, 'Boxing Out: Road Building, Globalization and Spatial Reconfigurations in Yunan, Southwest China'
March 1, 2012
Event Highlight
February 16, 2012, 'Death in the Pyramids: The Isotopic Anthropology of Sacrifice at Teotihuacan'
February 16, 2012
Event Highlight
January 26, 2012, 'Seals and hunters on Lake Baikal in Siberia'
January 26, 2012
Event Highlight
January 12, 2012, 'Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History - A Discussion'
January 12, 2012
Event Highlight
November 23, 2011, 'Ambiguous Intimacies: Of Affect, Power, and Mobility in Sex Tourism, Northeast Brazil'
November 23, 2011
Event Highlight
November 15, 2011, 'Nikkeijin Filipino Youth in Japan: Sex, The State, and Shadowy Citizenship'
November 15, 2011
Event Highlight
November 7, 2011, 'Stone Bead Making from the Indus to Chiba: Comparative and Experimental Studies'
November 7, 2011
Event Highlight
November 3, 2011, 'CHANGING PERSPECTIVES OF THE INDUS CIVILIZATION: RECENT DISCOVERIES IN PAKISTAN AND INDIA'
November 3, 2011
Event Highlight
October 27, 2011, 'COLLABORATIVE, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH IN ANTHROPOLOGY:CONCERNING ITS CURRENT CONDITIONS AND FUTURE TRAJECTORIES'
October 27, 2011
Event Highlight
"October 6, 2011, 'UNSEEN POWERS AND DEMOCRATIC DETECTIVES : STREET VENDORS IN AN INDONESIAN CITY'
October 6, 2011
Event Highlight
September 8, 2011, 'BETWEEN INDIGENEITY AND NATIONALITY: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AND NATURE IN RUSSIA'S DIAMOND PROVINCE'
September 8, 2011
Event Highlight
March 29, 2011, 'Telling Tales of Migrant Workers: Religion, Activism, and Women's Narratives'
March 29, 2011
Event Highlight
March 4, 2011, 'Only Apes Have Human Nature'
March 4, 2011
Event Highlight
March 3, 2011, 'Stranger-Kings, Enemy Heads, Affinal Kin, and Other Foreign Riches: The Alterity of Power and Vice-Versa'
March 3, 2011
Event Highlight
February 24, 2011, 'Neandertals deciphered'
February 24, 2011
Event Highlight
February 3, 2011, 'Holy Innocence: Sin, Childraising, and Memory in Russian Orthodox Anti-Abortion Activism'
February 3, 2011
Event Highlight
January 20, 2011, 'Global Health Business: The Production and Work of Health Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany'
January 20, 2011
Event Highlight
November 4, 2010, 'Tortured Bodies: Speaking Terror and the Epistemic Violence of the Chilean Commission on Torture and Political Imprisonment'
November 4, 2010
Event Highlight
October 14, 2010, 'What's in an Argument? Preliminary Reflections on Knowledge Exchanges'
October 14, 2010
Event Highlight
October 5, 2010, 'Shamans, Gender and Leadership in Ancient East Asia'
October 5, 2010
Event Highlight
October 1, 2010, 'Documenting Large and Small Histories in Late Prehistoric South India: Scalar views from and to Kadebakele'
October 1, 2010
Event Highlight
September 30, 2010, 'Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion'
September 30, 2010
Welcome new faculty!
August 19, 2010
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August 19, 2010
Environmental Studies
August 19, 2010
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