The most recent issue of the UBC Department of Anthropology NEWS Bulletin (No. 4(2): 15 Feb. 2008) is out and available on the Anthropology department website.

As always, it includes a list of new faculty and student publications. I’ve repeated the list below, including links to the UBC Library catalogue record for holdings information or direct links to the online article in those cases where we subscribe to the ejournal (as indicated by this icon: )

• Powis, T.G., W.J. Hurst, M.d. C. Rodríguez, P. Ortίz C., Blake, Michael, D. Cheetham, M.D. Coe and J.G. Hodgson. 2007. “Oldest Chocolate in the New World.” Antiquity 81 (314).
• Bloch, Alexia. In Press. “Discourses on Danger and Dreams of Prosperity: Confounding U.S. Government Positions on Trafficking from the Context of the former Soviet Union.” International Migration and Human Rights: The Global Repercussions of US Policy, S. Martinez (ed.), 41pp., Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Creighton, Millie. 2008. “Tourism: Japanese Tourism.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Volume 7: 286-288.
• Miller, Bruce Granville. 2007. “Response to Nesper, Negotiating jurisprudence in tribal court and the emergence of a Tribal state: the Ojibwe in Wisconsin.” Current Anthropology, 48 (5):692-693. Nesper’s article is here, or jump to comments here.
• Shelton, Anthony. 2007. “The Collectors Zeal. Towards an anthropology of intentionality, instrumentality and desire.” In Colonial Collections Revisited, P. ter Keurs (ed.), Leiden, CNWS, 16-44.
• Shelton, Anthony, S. R. Butler. 2008. Forward. Contested Representations: Revisiting Into the Heart of Africa. Peterborough, Broadview Press, pp-1-3.
• Wyndham, Felice S. 2007. Review of “The Environment in Anthropology:A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living.”by Haenn, N. and R. Wilk. American Anthropologist 109 (4): 767-768.

For more news from the Department, download the full Newsletter here.

The December issue of the UBC Department of Anthropology NEWS Bulletin (No. 2(3): 3 Dec. 2007) is out and available on the Anthropology department website.

As always, it includes a list of new faculty publications:

The November issue of the UBC Department of Anthropology NEWS Bulletin (No. 2(2): 22 Nov. 2007) is out and available on the Anthropology department website.

As always, it includes a list of new faculty and student publications. I’ve repeated the list below including links to the UBC Library catalogue record for holdings information or direct links to the online article in those cases where we subscribe to the ejournal (as indicated by this icon: )

Anzenavs, Lori Kathleen Ann. 2007. “A Place for Memory, History, and Community: A Study of Identity at the Vancouver Japanese Language School.” Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora. 5(1&2):43-88.

Barker, J. 2007. Review of “Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast” by Jan Hare and Jean Barman. BC Studies, 154 (summer): 139-140.

Carroll, William K. and R.S. Ratner. 2007. “Ambivalent Allies: Social Democratic Regimes and Social Movements” in BC Studies, 154 (Summer): 41-46.

Creighton, M. 2007. “International Forum of Pan American Nikkei and Overseas Japanese Highlights History of Japanese Immigration to Brazil and Networking for Globalizing Futures.” The Geppo Bulletin: A Journal of Japanese Canadian Community, History and Culture, 49(10):1. Issue highlight photo, 14, 24.

Creighton, M. 2007. “Changing Heart (Beats): From Japanese Identity and Nostalia to Taiko for Citizens of the Earth.” East-West Identities: Globalization, Localization, and Hybridization, 203-228. Leiden: Brill Press. (on order)

Kramer, J. Review of Art of the Northwest Coast by Aldona Jonaitis. Posted on Museum Anthropology Review October 23, 2007.

McKellin, William H., Kimary Shahin, Murray Hodgson, Janet Jamieson, and Kathleen Pichora-Fuller. 2007. “Pragmatics of Conversation and Communication in Noisy Settings.” Journal of Pragmatics 39(12):2159-2184.

O’Day, Robin. 2007. Review of “Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everday Life in Modern Japan” by David Ambaras. Pacific Affairs, 80(2):373-375.

Congratulations, all! Happy reading.

The September issue of the Anthropology NEWS Bulletin (No. 2(1): 24 Sept. 2007) is out and available on the Anthropology department website.

As always, it includes a list of new faculty publications, which I’ve replicated below including links to the catalogue record for holdings information or direct links to the online article in those cases where UBC Library subscribes to the ejournal (indicated by the icon: )

Barker, J. 2004 [2007]. “Films and Other Trials: Reflections on Fieldwork among the Maisin, Papua New Guinea,” Pacific Studies 27(3/4): 81- 106.

Barker, J. 2007. Review of “Globalization and the Re-Shaping of Christianity in the Pacific Islands“ edited by Manfred Ernst. The Contemporary Pacific 19(2):624- 26.

Barker, J. and A. Howard, eds. 2004 [2007]. “Back in the Field Again: Long Term Fieldwork in the Oceanic Anthropology,” Pacific Studies 27(3/4).

J. Barker and A. Howard 2004 [2007]. “Introduction: Back in the Field Again: Long Term Fieldwork in Oceanic Anthropology,” Pacific Studies 27(3/4): 1-10.

Butler, Caroline and Charles Menzies. 2007. “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Tourism.” In R.W. Butler ad T. Hich (eds). Tourism and Indigenous Peoples. London: Elsevier.

Goulet, Jean-Guy and Bruce Granville Miller. Eds. 2007. Extraordinary Anthropology: Transformations in the Field. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Menzies, Charles and Caroline Butler. 2007. “Returning to Selective Fishing Through Indigenous Fisheries Knowledge: The Example of K’moda, Gitxaala Territory.” American Indian Quarterly. 31:3.

Miller, Bruce Granville. Ed. Introduction in “Be of Good Mind”. Essays on the Coast Salish. UBC Press, pp.1-29.

Miller, Bruce Granville. 2007. “A Brief Consideration of the Politics of Ecstatic Research.”Quaderni di Tule IV: Proceedings of the XXVI International Congress of Americanists. pp. 405-411.

Pokotylo, David. 2007. “Archaeology and the ‘Educated Public’: A Perspective from the University.” The SAA Archaeological Record 7 (3): 14-18.

Shelton, Anthony. 2007. “The Collector’s Zeal: Towards an Anthropology of Intentionality, Instrumentality and Desire.” In P. ter Keurs (ed.), Colonial Collections Revisited. CNWS, Leiden pp. 16-44.

Shelton, Anthony 2007. “Intellige Un Credas: The First Canada-China Cultural Exchange Mission.” Muse 25 (2): 12-15, Page 3/2

Shelton, Anthony. 2007. Review of B. Dupaigne, Le Scandale des Arts Premiers. L’Homme 183.

Shelton, Anthony. 2007. Review of O. Kindl, La Jicara Huichola: un microcosmos mesoamericano. L’Homme 182.

Small, Dan and E. Drucker. 2007. “Closed to Reason: Time for Accountability for the International Narcotic Control Board.” Harm Reduction Journal. 4(13): 1-14.