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New Media / Exhibition Review
Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in English and Kwak’wala, opens The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, an exhibition on view...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139
Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt
New Media / Exhibition Review
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lo-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley Virtual Museum
Sq’éwlets: A Stó:lō -Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley (Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre and Stó:lō Nation, 2016) is a virtual museum in the form of a website that reflects a collaborative...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 195-197
reflection
New Media / Exhibition Review
In/consequential Relationships: Refusing Colonial Ethics of Engagement in Yuxweluptun’s Inherent Rights, Vision Rights
On the closing day of the Museum of Anthropology’s Unceded Territories exhibit of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s art, crowds formed queues long enough to snake through the halls and to pack the exhibit space for the...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 187-192
reflection
review essay
photo essay
New Media / Exhibition Review
Pop Culture Confronts British Columbia’s Colonial History
Grand Theft Terra Firma: A Game of Imperial Stickup, Abbotsford, British Columbia, the Reach Gallery Museum, 17 January – 7 May 2017. The exhibition is augmented by several public events, including a live theatrical performance...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 198-200
New Media / Exhibition Review
A Tradition of Evolution: The Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival
Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival: Vancouver, British Columbia, 25-26 May 2017. The festival featured film and new media presentations, including a “Turtle Island Shorts” program (May 26); VR and augmented reality presentations (May 27); and...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 151-159
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Review
The Aquaculture Controversy in Canada: Activism, Policy, and Contested Science
There are few issues in British Columbia more divisive than aquaculture. With their new book, Nathan Young and Ralph Matthews provide a timely, well-documented, and clearly articulated step back from the aquaculture fray. The impetus...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 148-152
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Where Happiness Dwells: A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations
“He expects the listener to be familiar with that part of the story, in the same way that Homer expected ancient Greeks to know about the Trojan horse and didn’t include it in The Iliad”...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 215-217
Review
Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
David Stouck has written a remarkable history. More than a biography, it is an encompassing account of a remarkable figure in later modern Canadian and international cultural history. Stouck recovers the spirit and material record...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 244-247
Review
Profit and Ambition, The North West Company and the Fur Trade 1779-1821
This booklet was published to accompany the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s current exhibition (by the same name), which ends 6 February 2011. It is more than just a catalogue because, in addition to the superb...
BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | Page(s) 155-156
Review
Missing Women, Missing News: Covering Crisis in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
In a publication coincident with the launch of the inquiry into the police investigation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, David Hugill’s Missing Women, Missing News poses a vital and timely challenge to common-sense frames...
BC Studies no. 170 Summer 2011 | Page(s) 181-183
Review
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
This sophisticated and engaging book has much to offer a number of scholarly areas, including Canadian history, gender studies, and political and legal studies. Working from a massive bedrock of diverse primary materials, Sarah Carter...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 125-127
Review
On the Art of Being Canadian
Sherrill Grace’s On the Art of Being Canadian describes how Canadian painters, sculptors, actors, filmmakers, and writers, among others, have manifested their thoughts on Canadian identity in response to three distinct themes, which correspond to...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 95-96
Review
The Origin of the Wolf Ritual: The Whaling Indians, West Coast Legends and Stories
The Nuu-chah-nulth (formerly known as the Nootka) Wolf Ritual texts re-presented here have had a complex history of authorship and availability within the BC communities from which they were collected for the Anthropological Division of...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 127-128
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No Longer Captives of the Past: The story of a Reconciliation on Erromango
No Longer Captives of the Past is an important book for two reasons. It offers an excellent case study of modern day reconciliation remediating past wrongs, and it reminds us how, in this interconnected world,...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 152-54
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Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field
“Anthropology is unquestionably a discipline with well-known intellectual traditions, or histories … [It is] not a social science tout court, but something else. What that something else is has been notoriously difficult to name, precisely...
BC Studies no. 160 Winter 2008-2009 | Page(s) 129-31
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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest: A Photographic Encyclopedia of Invertebrates, Seaweeds and Selected Fishes
This book is a self-confessed labour of love, and it took the authors twenty-five years working in their spare time to complete it. Beautifully produced and reasonably priced, it has over 1,700 original colour photographs...