Category Archives: Seminar

#AAA2011 Anthropology Meeting in Montreal – our panel Thursday a.m.

3-0040 GITXAAŁA LAXYUUP (KITKATLA NATION): TRACING GITXAALA HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUGH ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY.
Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-09:45

 

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers:  Charles R Menzies (UBC) and Caroline F Butler (Gitxaala Environmental Monitoring)
Chairs:  Charles R Menzies (UBC)
Discussants:  Caroline F Butler (Gitxaala Environmental Monitoring)
08:15
08:45
Preliminary Results of Lithic Analyses atTs’uwaanłm Galts’ap, Laxyuup Gitxaała.

Kenzie Jessome (University of British Columbia and In Situ Anthropological Consulting)
09:00
Gitxaala Marine Use Planning – An Indigenous Authority and Jurisdiction

Morgan E Moffitt (University of British Columbia)
09:15
09:30
Discussant

Caroline F Butler (Gitxaala Environmental Monitoring)

12th International Congress of Ethnobiology -Tofino BC

ISEThe Congress opened Sunday evening with a welcome and presentation from the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.  The hall at the Tin Wis Hotel was filled to standing room only from 7pm until past 10 in the evening.

The Congress continues until Friday, May14.  Sessions and themes include Indigenous Forums, panels on food security, and a range of associated activities.

Forests and Oceans for the Future Speakers Series

Upcoming speaker: March 8, 2007. 5:00 – 6:30 pm, AnSo Rm 2107.

Dr. Kelly Bannister (Director, POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, U Vic.).
“The Nexus of Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge.”

The role of traditional knowledge in biodiversity science and decision-making has peaked serious interest by governments, policy-makers, academics, Indigenous communities and others around the world. However, despite increasing agreement in principle that combining western scientific and traditional knowledge systems may better address some emergent human and ecosystem health problems, relatively little progress has been made in practice ­ or in developing policies and infrastructure to support such practice. The role of ethical and quasi-legal instruments, such as research protocols and codes, are receiving significant attention at local to international levels for their potential to address a number of challenges that lie at this nexus of principle-policy-practice involving biodiversity and traditional knowledge. Are such instruments tools for building cross-cultural relationships, democratizing biodiversity science and empowering communities in decision-making, or do they serve to bureaucratize the research enterprise?