Friday, September 30, 2005
Canadian Aboriginal History News has a detailed post about the Delgamuukw Decision, its history, and significance. Called ‘A Guide to the Delgamuukw Decision,’ the post cites another website, Delgamuukw.org, which is dedicated to understanding and interpreting the BC and Canadian court decisions from the 1990s. The Aboriginal History News post summarizes the Delgamuukw Decision under [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The twelfth annual report of the BC Treaty Commission was released today. The first paragraph of the press release sums up the state of affairs: Important court rulings and political actions are likely to have a positive impact on future progress although they have at times overshadowed treaty negotiations this year and temporarily slowed progress [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
In the course of a general conversation about methods in various social science disciplines this week, a colleague asked me what stops me from ‘making stuff up’ in my anthropology research. My immediate response was that there was really nothing to stop me from writing anthropological fiction. I elaborated, however, and suggested that I would [...]
Saturday, September 17, 2005
It saddens me to hear that elders and younger members of the Iskut First Nation have been arrested at a blockade within their traditional lands in northwestern BC. I conducted my fieldwork at Iskut and know many of the people arrested. I also know that the blockade against mining exploration in the area of the [...]
Friday, September 16, 2005
After almost six months of blogging, I have changed the subtitle of FieldNotes. I have found that I am writing most often about issues raised in my classes and topics related to aboriginal rights and title in British Columbia and I think this title conveys a better sense of what I have been doing. Sphere: [...]
Friday, September 16, 2005
My Wednesday night class on BC First Nations discussed BC archaeology this week. A small part of the lecture and conversation revolved around the role played by the BC Provincial Government in maintaining the Provincial Heritage Registry, a database which houses information about the archaeological sites recorded in the province. Some students expressed concern and [...]
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
In both of my Introduction to Cultural Anthropology classes last week, talk of biological anthropology as a subfield of the discipline led to brief mention of a new Fox TV show called ‘Bones.’ The show is CSI-like and is about the work of a forensic anthropologist. I watched the pilot episode last night and enjoyed [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2005
My students will be amused by a study in the journal American Speech where a linguistic anthropology student at the University of Toronto watched all episodes of the first eight seasons of Friends to try and understand the speech patterns of the characters on the show. Then, conclusions were drawn about the impact of the [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2005
Daniel Oppenheimer has written a useful and interesting article on David Samuels’s recent ethnography Putting a Song on Top of It: Expression and Identity on the San Carlos Apache Reservation for the Valley Advocate, a news and arts weekly published in Easthampton, MA. The article is extensive, reviewing the book and, perhaps of greater interest [...]
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
I recently stumbled across a neat website and blog devoted to Aboriginal History in Canada. Called Canadian Aboriginal History News, the site is a collection of blog posts and other interesting links related to the history of aboriginal peoples across Canada. And, it features numerous rss feeds for all of the posts or for specific [...]
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