Language improves health and wellbeing in Indigenous communities
Anthropology’s Mark Turin has co-authored a scoping review with two UBC library staff and two former UBC undergraduates that examines the links between between the vitality of Indigenous languages and health and wellness in four English-speaking settler colonial countries. Indigenous languages in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States are endangered due to colonial […]
Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of reconstruction in Bhaktapur, Nepal
Sara Shneiderman has co-authored a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Material Culture. Journal of Material Culture explores the relationship between artefacts and social relations. It draws on a range of disciplines including anthropology, archaeology, design studies, history, human geography and museology. Title: Building a ‘cultural city’: Heritage, identity, and the politics of […]
Bruce Miller on Stephen Grant Baines: The Power of International Networks
Professor Emeritus Bruce Granville Miller recently published in the Brazilian journal anuário antropológico. The article reflects on the career achievements of social anthropologist Stephen Grant Baines, including their many collaborations and their shared interest in working with Indigenous communities. Professor Baines’ interest in Indigenous peoples at the borderlands of nation-states mirrors my own, since in […]