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New Book Publication: Dr. Albert Schrauwers – Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870

Our Full-time Faculty member, Dr. Albert Schrauwers has completed his new book-length publication. In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of “merchant kings” who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund Netherlands into a […]

New Publication: Prof. Shubhra Gururani – Agrarian Urbanisation: Emerging Entaglements of Land, Labour and Capital, Urbanisation (IIHS)

Our former Undergraduate Program Director & Chair for the Department of Anthropology and current Full-time Faculty member, Dr. Shubhra Gururani has recently co-edited a special issue for the Urbanisation journal anchored by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS). You can read the journal and her article on open access until September 30th, 2021. This […]

New Book Publication: Dr. Arne Steinforth – Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa

Our Contract Faculty member, Dr. Arne Steinforth has completed his new book-length publication which will be arriving at all bookstores in Fall 2021. When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In their empirical experience, fact – knowledge […]

New Publication: Prof. Shubhra Gururani – Engaging the Urban from the Periphery, SAMAJ

The Undergraduate Program Director & Chair for the Department of Anthropology has recently co-edited a special issue for the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). You can read the journal and her article online.

ANTH 4130 – The Professional Anthropologist | The Placement Course

The Learning Curve: Ryan James on Lecturing through YouTube

From YouTube-hosted lectures to gamifying the classroom, The Learning Curve is a series showcasing how course instructors in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies are embracing the online learning environment with creative approaches to teaching remotely. In our latest instalment, Ryan James, a contract faculty member teaching in the Department of Anthropology and […]

Prof. Ken Little 2020 On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize

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John L . Jackson, Jr. – Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture 2020

Department of Anthropology Annual Lecture 2020 What a Difference Filmmaking MakesAutoethnography, Multimodalityand the Future of Scholarship John L . Jackson, Jr. Richard Perry University ProfessorWalter H. Annenberg DeanAnnenberg School for CommunicationUniversity of Pennsylvania Using my own journey as an ethnographic filmmaker to help ground its claims, this talk seeks to articulate the epistemological and ethical […]

New Book by Prof. Natasha Myers: Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le Langage des Plantes

Hustak and Myers (2020) Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le Langage des Plantes, translated by Philipe Pignarre, preface by Vinciane Despret and Maylis de Kerangal, Éditions la Découverte: Paris.

The Anthropology Department welcomes our True Visitor and Post Docs for 2020-2021

New for 2020-2021 (PDF) True Visitor: Dr. Omer Ozcan Omer Ozcan is a True Visitor Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at York University. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on temporal and spatial effects of militarization and human rights violations in Turkey. He has […]