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Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
The 40th anniversary reprint of the original, classic study, Indian Fishing,has arrived. Its author is the multi-talented graphic artist, photographer, archeological fieldworker/ethnographer, and museum exhibit curator, the late Hilary Stewart. For only one of these many skills...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 151-152
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All Roads Lead to Wells: Stories of the Hippie Days
The growing literature about hippies demonstrates that the phenomenon was anything but uniform. Joy Inglis, in a privately printed book, describes one manifestation: a commune on Quadra Island that was established in 1968 by Antioch...
BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | Page(s) 195-96
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Jacob’s Prayer: Loss and Resilience at Alkali Lake
Recently, historians have taken the “affective turn,” that is, they have begun paying particular attention to emotion and sensation. Jacob’s Prayer, which documents the relationships between hopeful young teachers in 1970s British Columbia and Esket,...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 105
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A World Apart: The Crowsnest Communities of Alberta and British Columbia
A WORLD APART, edited by Wayne Norton and Tom Langford, is a solid collection of essays and memoirs about the experience of living and working in the Crowsnest Pass communities of Alberta and British Columbia in the twentieth...
BC Studies no. 138-139 Summer-Autumn 2003 | Page(s) 192-4
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Architecture and the Canadian Fabric
Broad in scope and filled with both insight and intriguing fact, Architecture and the Canadian Fabric positions itself in a productive cleft between architectural and political discussion — discussion largely attentive to the perennial interest...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 183-4
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The Amazing Mazie Baker: The Squamish Nation’s Warrior Elder
I grew up ten minutes away from Eslha7án, the Mission Indian Reserve, in what is today known as North Vancouver, which is part of the territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw or Squamish Nation. Yet I...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 156-158
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Tending the Student Body: Youth, Health, and the Modern University
This fine piece of work provides new insights into the way the nature and culture of life in Canadian universities changed during the first sixty years of the twentieth century. Based on a careful review...
BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 149-150
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Playing for Change: The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation
Rarely does a book cover depict a Canadian athlete with claims to a major role in academic life and advocacy politics, but this is no ordinary cover. The front of Playing for Change depicts young Bruce Kidd,...
BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | Page(s) 238-239
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An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism
Although descriptive work on historic artifacts of Asian origin has been sporadically produced by American archaeologists since the 1960s, and by British Columbia archaeologists since the 1970s, recent years have seen a blossoming of Asian...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 123-24
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Bootleggers and Borders: The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-US Borderland
Given how contentious relations between Canada and the US became during the American Prohibition era (1917-1933), it is surprising how little scholarly work has been done on the subject. There are many popular books about...
BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | Page(s) 173-74
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Carrying on Irregardless: Humour In Contemporary Northwest Coast Art
An exhibition and catalogue devoted to humour in contemporary Northwest Coast art was long overdue. Martine Reid’s and Peter Morin’s Carrying on Irregardless: Humour In Contemporary Northwest Coast Art positions itself as the Northwest Coast...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 157-58
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Brian Jungen
The book provides an overview of the career of the artist Brian Jungen, consisting of essays by Daina Augaitis and four other notable curators — Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ralph Rugoff, Kitty Scott, and Trevor Smith. The...
BC Studies no. 175 Autumn 2012 | Page(s) 148-50
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Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia
The study of indigenous history is fundamentally interdisciplinary and benefits, as Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia illustrates, from consideration of different forms of data from a range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. The challenge...
BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | Page(s) 144-46
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We are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community
As laid out in the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages (2010), since the 1800s, there has been “dramatic decline in the number of fluent speakers” of First...
BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 195-96
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The Afterthought: West Coast Rock Posters and Recollections
Jerry Kruz’s beautifully illustrated autobiographical work provides an intriguing first hand glimpse of Vancouver psychedelic music scene. The book revolves around Kruz’s years as a concert promoter from 1966 to 1969. Although it briefly describes...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 141-43
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Canoe Crossings: Understanding the Craft That Helped Shape British Columbia
A devoted canoeist, Sanford Osler has used his wide experience with many forms of paddle-craft to write a comprehensive and well-informed review of canoeing and kayaking in British Columbia. His up-to-date and very readable presentation...
BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | Page(s) 151-52
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In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice
This edited volume of modern BC birthing stories will be a compelling read for anyone with a personal or professional interest in the rich drama of childbirth. Not intended as a scholarly text, the sixty...
BC Studies no. 197 Spring 2018 | Page(s) 187-88
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Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper Class Victoria 1843-1918, More English than the English: A Very Social History of Victoria
In “Tracing the Fortunes of Five Founding Families of Victoria” (BC Studies 115/116 1998/1999), Sylvia Van Kirk revealed the mixed cultural background of some of Victoria’s most important settler families (the Douglases, Tods, Works,...
BC Studies no. 178 Summer 2013 | Page(s) 131-133
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Father August Brabant: Saviour or Scourge?
The numerous European men and fewer women who travelled overseas to spread a particular brand of Christianity among distant peoples in the nineteenth century are a perennial source of interest among scholars — and for...
BC Studies no. 181 Spring 2014 | Page(s) 154-55
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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw
Marianne and Ron Ignace are members of the Secwépemc First Nation in south-central British Columbia. Ron was raised by his great-grandparents, grew up speaking Secwepemctsín, and is a former Chief. Both Ron and Marianne have...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 183-4
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Imagining Uplands: John Olmsted’s Masterpiece of Residential Design
This is a most handsome book, and a most intelligent analysis of the dense process of realizing a design concept. Larry McCann has allowed his telling of the Uplands history to be imaginative, if not...