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2008 Publications

D.W. ATTWOOD:            

1)  Attwood, D.W., Baviskar, B.S., & Sick, D.R.; "Rural Cooperatives." Companion to Development Studies.  Ed. Vandana Desai & Robert Potter. New York: Oxford U. Press, 2008.  165-170.

Attwood, D.W. & Baviskar, B.S. “Cooperatives and Industrialization in Rural Areas: The Indian Experience.” Understanding Indian Society – Past and Present: Essays in Honour of A.M. Shah.  Ed. B.S. Baviskar & Tulsi Patel. New Delhi: Orient Longman (in press early 2009).

3)  Presentation: “Cooperatives in a Capitalist World: Sugar Factories in Western India.”  Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, NM, March 17-21 (Panel F-38 on Ethical Production and Consumption).

M.S. BISSON :

1)  Bisson, M. S.  2008.  “Bruce Graham Trigger” (Obituary) American Anthropologist. 110(1):165-167.

Nowell, A., Bisson M. S., Cordova C., DeWitt, R. and Pokines, J.   2008.   “Wadi Zarqa’ Ma’in, Madaba Plateau.” American Journal of Archaeology. 112(3): 518-519.

Bisson, M. S.  2008  “The Strange Case of the Grimaldi Figurines” in M. Chazen World Prehistory and Archaeology (Canadian Edition).  Toronto: Pearson.  Pp. 168-169.

Ariane Burke, L. Meignen, M.  Bisson, C. Parslow, and L. Gilbert.  2009. The Palaeolithic occupation of the Sado drainage basin, southern Alentejo.   Vipasca: Arqueologia e História.

3)  Presentations: Bisson, Michael S., A. Nowell, M. Poupart, C. Cordova, B. Gahleb and M. al-Nahar.    2008 , “The Ma’in Site Complex: Middle Paleolithic Lithic Procurement on the Madaba Plateau, Jordan” (Poster) Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, March 28, 2008; M.S. Bisson, “Fundamentals of Paleolithic Stone Technology” (Invited public demonstration and lecture), Stewart Museum of History, Montreal; Bisson, M. S., C. Cordova, A. Nowell, M. Poupart, C. Ames., "WE-2: The Middle Paleolithic of the Wadi Enoqiyya Revisited.”  Jordan’s Prehistory: Past and Future Research. Meetings sponsored by the Department of Antiquities.  Amman, Jordan.  May 26, 2009; Nowell, A., M. Bisson, C. Cordova, J. Pokines C. Ames, M. el-Nahar.  “Through the Stones we Reach the Shore: Excavations at a Paleolithic Marsh.”    Jordan’s Prehistory: Past and Future Research. Meetings sponsored by the Department of Antiquities.  Amman, Jordan.  May 26, 2009; Cordova, C., C. Ames, M. Bisson, A. Nowell, “The Paleolithic of Azraq and the Madaba Plateau in the Context of Global Climate Change.”    Jordan’s Prehistory: Past and Future Research. Meetings sponsored by the Department of Antiquities.  Amman, Jordan.  May 26, 2009; Nowell, A. M. Bisson, C. Cordova, J. Pokines C. Ames, M. el-Nahar, “Through the Stones we Reach the Shore: Excavations at a Paleolithic Marsh.”  Paleoanthropology Society Annual Meeting, Chicago.  April 1, 2009; Nowell, A., M. Bisson, C. Cordova, J. Pokines, “The Druze Marsh Paleolithic Project: Results of the 2008 Season.  American School of Oriental Research, Annual Meetings: New Orleans, La.  Feb. 2009.

L. BOSSEN: 

1)  Bossen, Laurel. “Hand und Fuß gebunden: Frauenarbeit und das Binden der Füße im China des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.” [Bound Hand and Foot: Women’s Work and Footbinding in Early Twentieth Century China]. Translator Mareile Flitsch. Technikgeschichte (History of Technology), Bd 75,  pp. 117-140,  2008.

Bossen, Laurel. "Women and Development" revised and updated for third edition of Understanding Contemporary China.  Robert Gamer, ed.  Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Pp. 309-338. 2008.

Bossen, Laurel, Melissa Brown, Hill Gates and Wang Xurui. “Feet and Fabrication: Footbinding and Early 20th Century Rural Women’s Labor in Shaanxi.”  Submitted to Modern China, March 2009.

2)  Bossen, Laurel. Book review of Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures: Half the Sky. C. K. Granrose, ed. The China Journal. No. 59, pp. 168-70, Jan. 2008.

3)  Presenter:  “Early 20th Century Women’s Labor and Footbinding in Shaanxi Province” Seminar, Universities Service Centre for China Studies and Gender Studies Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 25, 2008.

C. CHAPMAN:

1)  M.A. Huffman and C.A. Chapman (editors). 2009. Primate parasite ecology: The dynamics and study of host-parasite relationships.  Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.  531 pgs.

Chapman, C.A., L.J. Chapman, P. Omeja, and D. Twinomugisha. 2008.  Long-term studies reveal the conservation potential for integrating habitat restoration and animal nutrition.  In: Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Long- term Research, R.W. Wrangham and E. Ross (eds).  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge pp. 51-62.

Box, H., T.M. Butynski, C.A. Chapman, J.S. Lwanga J.F. Oates, R. Rudran, and P.M. Waser.  2008.  Thomas T. Struhsaker recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Primatological Society 2006.  International Journal of Primatology 29:13-19.

Gillespie, T.R. and C.A. Chapman.  2008.  Forest fragmentation, the decline of an endangered primate, and changes in host-parasite interactions relative to an unfragmented forest.  American Journal of Primatology 70:222-230.

Chapman, C.A. and Rothman, J.M.  2009.  Within-species differences in primate social structure: Evolution of plasticity and phylogenetic constraints.  Primates 50:12-22.

Harris, T.R., D. Caillaud, Chapman, C.A., and L. Vigilant.  2009.  Neither genetic nor observational data alone are sufficient for understanding sex-biased dispersal in a social-group-living species.  Molecular Ecology 18:1777-1790.

Twinomugisha, D., and C.A. Chapman.  2008.  Golden monkey ranging in relation to spatial and temporal variation in food availability: Implication for conservation.  African Journal of Ecology 46:585-593.

Bezjian, M., T.R. Gillespie, C.A. Chapman, and E.C. Greiner.  2008  Gastrointestinal parasites of forest baboons, Papio anubis, in Kibale National Park, Uganda.  Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44:878-887.

Snaith, T.V. and C.A. Chapman.  2008.  Red colobus monkeys display alternative behavioural responses to the costs of scramble competition.  Behavioural Ecology 19:1289-1296.

Chapman, L.J., C.A. Chapman, L.S. Kaufman, F. Witte, and J. Balirwa.   2008.  Biodiversity conservation in African inland waters: Lessons of the Lake Victoria region.  Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.  30:

Jacob, A.L., I. Vaccaro, R. Sengupta, J. Hartter, and C.A. Chapman  2008. How can conservation biology best prepare for declining rural population and ecological homogenization?  Tropical Conservation Science 4:307-320.

Goldberg, T.L., T.R. Gillespie, I.B. Rwego, E.L. Estoff, and C.A. Chapman. 2008.  Forest fragmentation as cause of bacterial transmission among non-human primates, humans, and livestock, Uganda.  Emerging Infectious Diseases 14:1375-1382.

Aureli, F., C.M. Schffner, C. Boesch, S.K. Bearder, J. Call, C.A. Chapman, R. Connor, A. Di Fiore, R.I.M. Dunbar, S.P. Henzi, K. Holekamp, A.H. Korstjens, R. Layton, P. Lee, J. Lehmann, J.H. Manson, G. Ramos-Fernandez, K.B. Strier, C.P., Van Schaik.  2008.  Fission-fusion dynamics: new research frameworks.  Current Anthropology 49:627-654.

Snaith, T.V., C.A. Chapman, J.M. Rothman, and M.D. Wasserman.  2008.  Bigger groups have fewer parasites and similar cortisol levels: a multi-group analysis in red colobus monkeys.  American Journal of Primatology 70:1-9.

Arlet, M.E., F. Molleman, and C.A. Chapman. 2008.  Mating tactics in male grey-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus ugandae).  Ethology 114:851-862.

Chapman, C.A., K. Kitajima, A.E. Zanne, L.S. Kaufman, M.J. Lawes.  2008.  A 10-yr evaluation of the functional basis for regeneration habitat preference of trees in an African evergreen forest.  Forest Ecology and Management 225:3790-3796.

Lawes, M.J., M.E. Griffiths, J.J. Midgley, S. Boudreau, H.A.C. Eeley and C.A. Chapman.  2008.  Tree spacing and area of competitive influence do not scale with tree size in an African rainforest Journal of Vegetation Science 19:729-738.

3)  Presenter: “Broad simian retrovirus diversity and co-infection of Ugandan red colobus monkeys (Procolobus rufomitratus tephrosceles) with novel delta-, lenti- and spuma-retroviruses”.  W. Switzer, T. Goldberg, D. Sintasath, C.A. Chapman, K. Cameron, W. Karesh, S. Tang, N. Wolfe, I. Rwego, N. Ting.  Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Montreal, February, 2009; “Complex responses to climate and anthropogenic changes: An evaluation based on long-term data from Kibale National Park, Uganda,”.   Chapman, C.A. L.J. Chapman, J. Hartter, A.L. Jacob, J.S. Lwanga, P. Omeja, J.M. Rothman, and D. Twinomugisha.  MacArthur Foundation Conference on Long-term Changes in the Albertine Rift, Kampala, Jan 6-9th Kampala, Uganda; “Feeding and nutritional ecology of mountain gorillas”. Rothman, J. M., Dierenfeld, E. S., Plumptre, A. J., Hintz, H. F., Van Soest, P. J., Chapman, C. A., & Pell, A. N. Symposia of the Comparative Nutrition Society, Nova Scotia Sept 2008; “Climate change in an African rainforest: implications for primate feeding and nutrition”. Rothman, J. M., Chapman, C. A., Chapman, L. J., Struhsaker, T. T., Twinomugisha, D., & Waterman, P. G. Symposia of the Comparative Nutrition Society, Nova Scotia Sept 2008; “Climate change in Kibale: Interaction of climate, disease, tree phenology, tree chemistry, and primate abundance”. C.A. Chapman, D. Twinomugisha, J. Rothman, T.T. Struhsaker, J. Hartter, P.G. Waterman, & S.A.M. Hodder,  International Society of Primatology, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2008; “The Kibale Ecohealth Project: Epidemiology and ecology of infectious disease transmission among primates, people and livestock in a fragmented forest in western Uganda”.  T.L. Goldberg, T.R. Gillespie, I.B. Rwego and C.A. Chapman.  International Society of Primatology, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2008; “Therapeutic self-medication by free-ranging red colobus monkeys”.  T.R. Gillespie, C.A. Chapman, and M.A. Huffman.  International Society of Primatology, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2008; “The use of fruiting sychronicity as a conceptual tool by foraging mangabeys”.  K.R.L. Janmmat, C.A. Chapman, K. Zueberbuhler, and R.W. Byrne.  International Society of Primatology, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2008; “Variation in fecal cortisol levels in a wild black howler monkey population in southern Belize”.  International Society of Primatology, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2008; ‘Academic Research on Primates: Conservation Implications”.  National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., June 2008; “Simulating Parasite-Host Interactions using Agent-Based Models: A Case-Study of Kibale National Park, Uganda”.  R. Sengupta, T. Bonnell, and C. A. Chapman. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, April 2009; “The role of food supply in the recovery of a black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) population in response to a major hurricane”.  Behie, A.M., M.S.M. Pavelka, C.A. Chapman.  American Society of Physical Anthropology.  Chicago, April 2009; “Intraspecific variability in the nutritional content of primate foods: Implications for primate feeding ecology and ways forward”.  J.M. Rothman and C.A. Chapman.  American Society of Physical Anthropology.  Chicago, April 2009.

N. COUTURE:

1)  Book chapter :  Monumentalidad e historismo: representaciones de la identidad y memoria colectiva de la élite en Tiwanaku (trans. Monumentality and Historicity:  Rrepresentations of Elite Identity Colective Memory at Tiwanaku).  In Arqueología de las Tierras Altas, Valles Interandinos, Valles Interandinos y Tierras Bajas de Bolivia.  Memorias del I Congreso de Arqueología de Bolivia, edited by Claudia Rivera, pp. 49-62. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas y Arqueológicas de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, 2008.

Book chapter:  Benjamin Vining, Patrick Ryan Williams, Deborah Blom, and Nicole C. Couture  Hacia in una imagen del espacio social en Tiwanaku: perspectivas por medio de métodos geofísicos en el altiplano Boliviano (trans. Towards an Imaging of Social Space at Tiwanaku:  a Geophysical Perspective in the Bolivian Altiplano). In Arqueología de las Tierras Altas, Valles Interandinos, Valles Interandinos y Tierras Bajas de Bolivia.  Memorias del I Congreso de Arqueología de Bolivia, edited by Claudia Rivera, pp. 63-76. Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas y Arqueológicas de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, 2008.

2)  Informe sobre los trabajos realizados por el Proyecto Jacha Marka, Gestion 2007. (with Maria Bruno, Deborah Blom, and Denisse Rodas). Research report presented to the Dirección Nacional de Arqueología (Bolivia), the Alcaldia Municipal de Tiahuanacu, and the Consejo de Ayllus y Comunidades Originarios de Tiwanaku. (June 1, 2008)

3)   Conference presenter: Talking Heads and the Grateful Dead:  Unpacking the Meaning of Trophy Heads at Tiwanaku,  Paper presented at the 73rd  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, BC. (March 2008); What are they doing with their dead? Local mortuary practices at Mollo Kontu, Tiwanaku. Paper presented at the 74rd  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.  (first co-author, with Deborah Blom,  Dennise Rodas S., Eduardo Machicado, and Ruth Fontenla), 2009; Microfaunal Remains from Tiwanaku. What are they doing with their dead? Local mortuary practices at Mollo Kontu, Tiwanaku. Paper presented at the 74rd  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA. 2009; Skirting Around the City: “Being Tiwanaku” at Mollo Kontu. Paper presented at the 74rd  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, GA.  (2nd co-author, with Deborah Blom and Maria Bruno). 2009

Invited lecturer:  Communities Past and Present:  the archaeology of a Pre-Columbian Neighborhood in contemporary Tiwanaku, Bolivia.  Lecture Presented at the Anthropology Colloquium Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.  January 9, 2009.

4)   Seminar presenter :  Proyecto Jach’a Marka: Excavaciones en Mollo Kontu, Tiwanaku. Paper presented at the Seminar “Avances de Investigaciones en los Proyectos de Excavacíon Arqueológica en Tiwanaku – Bolivia”, organized by the Unidad Nacional de Arqueología dde Bolivia and the Museo Regional y Complejo Arqueologico de Tiwanaku.  Tiwanaku, Bolivia.  July 2, 2009.

J. GALATY:

1)  - Prefazione, in R. Malighetti, Clifford Geertz. Il lavoro dell'antropologo, Torino: Utet, 2008, pp. vii-xiv.

- Violence and its mediations: Civil society, community conflict and the state in East Africa, In Beside the State: Emergent Powers in Contemporary Africa, Alice Bellagamba & Georg Klute, eds., Cologne: Rüdige Köppe Verlag, 2008, pp. 23-54.

- Review, Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment: A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies, Michael Bollig. New York: Springer, 2006. Anthropological Research, Vol. 64, 2008, pp. 104-106.

- Revisiting Pastoralism and Marketing in East Africa. Review of Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa: Research and Policy Challenges. By John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little., eds., Rugby, Warwickshire: Intermediate Technology Publications, Ltd., 2006. African Studies Review, April, vol. 51, 2008, no. 1, pp. 131-134.

3)   Conference Organizer:  Panel on “Resilience to Resistance: Pastoralist Strategies in Response to Contemporary Political and Ecological Disruption and Change in Africa”, sponsored by the Commission on Nomadic Peoples, ICAES, Kunming, China (with Michael Bollig)(Postponed to July, 2009); session on “Maasai Common(s) Sense: The Political Logic of Enclosure”, AAA, Philadelphia, Dec. 2-5, 2009

Panel Member: McGill Conference on Global Food Security, session on “Underlying Factors”, 25-26 September 2008

Presenter: “The Never-Ending Field: Friendship, Technology and the Refashioning of Ethnographic Experience”, Presentation, conference on How Does Anthropology Know? Ethnographic Fieldwork and the Production of Knowledge, Université de Montréal, 25-28 September 2008; “Behind the ethnic faces of Kenya’s political violence”, session on Unpacking the tinder box: Local histories & Kenya’s Post-electoral violence, AAA, San Francisco, 19-23 November 2008.

Discussant Paper, Session on ‘Structures of Enslavement for Indebtedness’, Conference on Debt and Slavery: The History of a Process of Enslavement, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, 7-9 May 2009.

4)  Seminars:  Post-Colonial Crises in African Societies: Development, Poverty, Conflict, Health, the Social School, the Medical University of Daegu Medical School, Daegu, Korea, 30 June 2008; The modernity of pastoralism in East Africa today: Property, mobility and the new territoriality, Seminar presented at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Bejing, 8 July 2008; Village Level Studies Workshop (Proposal Development; Gates Foundation, IDRC, SSHRC), School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, 13-14 November, 2008.

McGill Anthro Grad Conference, Discussant for the Session on Resources, Rights, and Rules, March 7th 2009.

Concluding Remarks, Graduate Conference, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill, 27 April 2009.

S.H. HYDE:         

1)  Good. MJ.D., Hyde, S.T., Pinto, S. and Good, B. (eds.) (2008) Postcolonial Disorders. Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series, Berkeley: University of California Press.

 “Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China,” in Postcolonial Disorders, MJ.D. Good, S.T. Hyde, S. Pinto and B. Good (eds.), Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series, 2008, Berkeley: University of California Press

Good, B., Good. MJ.D and Hyde, S.T. (2008) Introduction Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World,” in Postcolonial Disorders, MJ.D. Good, S.T. Hyde, S. Pinto and B. Good (eds.), Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity Series, Berkeley: University of California Press

3)  “The Spread of HIV/AIDS, Sexual Transmission and Heroin in China’s Southwest”, Prof. Zhang Li’s Internship students, UC Davis, China, Kunming, Yunnan, July 2008.

4)  Panel Chair and Discussant:  session on “Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in a Postcolonial World,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 22, 2008.

Invited participant: weeklong Advanced Seminar at the School for American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico on “Between Politics and Ethics: The Anthropology of Global Humanitarianism,” March 8-14 2008.

Presenter:  “Traveling Heroin Therapeutics:  Turning Prisoners into Patients and Patients into Healthy Citizens in Southwest China,” Wenner-Gren Medical Migrations Workshop, Costanoa, California, April 22, 2009 and SSHRC Anthropology of Addiction Workshop, McGill, Thompson House, April 23, 2009; “ The Political Economy of HIV/AIDS in China,” for Karine Vanthyne’s New Horizons in Medical Anthropology Course, McGill, January 28, 2009; “Chasing the Dragon’: Drug Use, HIV/AIDS and Humanitarian Aid in China,” Anthropology Colloquium, University of Kentucky, January 23, 2009; “The Social and Political Implications of HIV/AIDS in the Global South,” for Dr. Robert Murgita’s MIMMS - Microbiology and Medical Ethics Course, McGill, February 10, 2009.

4)  Workshop Organizer: “Writing Grants for Social Science Research in Canada,” McGill Anthropology, Nov. 2008

Co-chair and co-organizer:  SSHRC Workshop on the Anthropology of Addiction, Departments of Transcultural Psychiatry and Anthropology, McGill University, Thompson House, April 23-25, 2009.

KOHN, E. 

1)  Comment on “Necro-Utopia: The Politics of Indistinction and the Aesthetics of the Non-Soviet” By Alexei Yurchak. 2008.  Current Anthropology.  49(2): 216-217.

3) Invited speaker: “Anthropology Beyond the Human”  For the conference “Emergence: Nature’s Mode of Creativity –The Human Dimension.”  The Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. 54th Annual Star Island Conference. July 26-August 2, 2008, Star Island, New Hampshire.

“Form's Effortless Efficacy: A Multispecies Amazonian Account.”  Program in Agrarian Studies. Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series.  Yale University, New Haven.  23 January 2009.

Conference paper: “Always Already Runa”.  In “Symbolic Affinities, Pragmatic Engagements: Shaping Latin American Ethnology Through the Collaborative Work of Norman and Dorothea Scott Whitten”.  American Anthropological Association 107th Annual Meeting.  23 November 2008. San Francisco, CA.

LAMBERT, C. 

3)  Co-organizer: 'Setting Themes, Building Momentum: Bringing Researchers and Community Organizations Together', symposium In collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Community Health and Social Services Network, March 2009

MANOUKIAN, S. 

3)  Lecture:  "Formations of the self in the anthropology of the Middle East", a series of lectures as visiting professor at Ca' Foscari  University of Venice, Italy, May 2008.

Paper: on Fursat Shirazi (1854-1920) as invited participant at "Modernity's classics" a series of workshops organized by Central European University, Budapest, Dec. 2008.

NIEZEN, R. 

1) "Postcolonialism and the Utopian Imagination," in Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, edited by Philip Salzman and Donna Robinson.  New York: Routledge.

"The Global Indigenous Movement."  In Handbook of North American Indians: Indians in Contemporary Society, edited by Garrick Bailey.  2008. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.

“The Rediscovered Self:  Indigenous Identity and Cultural Justice”, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009 (240 pgs.)

“Self-Destruction as a Way of Belonging:  Understanding Cluster Suicides among Aboriginal Youth in Canada”.  In Healing Traditions:  The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples, L. Kirmayers and G. Balaskakis, eds.  University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, BC. 2009.

2)  Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society.  Second Edition.  2008. Prentice Hall.  120 pages.

3)  Presenter:  Digitale Identität: Indigenes Aktivismus und die Revolution der Informationsgesellschaft, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, May 2008.

Invited lectures: "Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Identity," University of Freiburg, Germany, 8 July 2008; “The Power of Persons Unknown:  Public Persuasion and Social Justice Ethnography”, University of Montreal, 26 February 2009; “The Performance of Rights:  Public Outreach and Cultural Enchantment in Global Governance, University of Zurich, 8 May 2009; “Indigenous ‘Soft Law’ and Public Persuasion”, University of Iowa, 22 May 2009.

Ph.D. course:  "The Academic Study of Indigenous Religions, Keynote Lectures:  "Assimilation and the Rise of Indigenous Identity", University of Tromsø,  Norway, 9-12 December 2008; "Conceptual Diplomacy and the International Movement of Indigenous Peoples."; "Grief and Grievance in an Aboriginal Community."

NORGET, K. 

1)  ‘Hard Habits to Baroque: Catholic Church and Popular-Indigenous Religious

Dialogue in Oaxaca, Mexico’, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2008, vol. 33:1; pgs. 131-158.

"La Virgen a las Barricadas: La Iglesia Católica, la religiosidad popular y el Movimiento de la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos Oaxaqueños",  in Participación política, (in)gobernabilidad y violencia en México: el caso de Oaxaca , ed. Victor Raúl Martínez (México, DF, Oaxaca: UABJO-Porrua).

2)  Reviewer:  Missionaries of the State: The Summer Institute of Linguistics, State Formation, and Indigenous Mexico, 1935-1985, by Todd Hartch, History: Reviews of New Books, 2008, 36:2, 66-67.

3)  Presenter:  “La Virgen a las Barricadas: La Iglesia Católica,,Religiosidad Popular y la Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca", Colloquium ‘Crisis Política y Movimiento Social, Oaxaca 2006-2008”, Oaxaca, Mexico, 21 October, 2008;What’s Tata Dios Got to do with it?: Conservation, La Madre Tierra and the Puzzling Politics of Indigeneity", panel on “Empirical Science, Conceptions of Nature and Spirituality: Critical Intersections for Environmental Management and Conservation in Latin America”, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 2008, 23 November; “Popes, Saints, Beato bones and other Images at War: The Roman Catholic Church in the Age of Globalism, Canadian Association of Anthropology (CASCA) , May 13-15, 2009, Vancouver, BC; “Dialogues of ‘Religion’ and Liberation: The Catholic Church and Indigenous Theology in Oaxaca, Mexico”, panel on “Crossing Borders and Histories of Returns”. Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, 3-6 September, 2009; Una Cacofonía de Autoctonía: Indigeneidad en la Movilización Popular Seminar Oaxaqueña, Seminar de récherche GRIPAL, Sciences Politique, UQAM, Montréal, 23 January 2009.

4)  Invited Seminar Leader : ‘La Antropología de la Religión en Oaxaca: ¿Porqué vale la pena?’, M.A. Seminar, Centro de Investigaciones Superiores de Antropología Social (CIESAS), Oaxaca, 29 February 2008.

Invited Panel Speaker: ‘After the Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion and the Future of Mexico’ Forum on the 2006 Oaxaca Uprising and its Significance for Contemporary Mexican Politics and Grassroots Organizing’, Simon Fraser University Latin American Studies Student Union (LASSU), Vancouver, BC, April 27.)

Discussant: Panel: “Urban Ideals, Health, and Violence”. McGill Anthropology Graduate Student Conference, Montreal (7 March).

REES, T.                 

1)  Translation (English to German) of:  “Slava Gerovitch: Roman Jakobson und die Kybernetisierung der Linguistik in der Sowjetunion.” Published in: Michael Hagner and Michael Hörl, Die Transformationen des Humanen, Frankfurt a. M., Suhrkamp, 2008.

3)  Invited lectures: Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, 2008; ETH (Technical University) Zurich, Department of the History of Science, 2008; University of Zurich, Department of Anthropology, 2008; University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland, Department of the History of Science, 2008; University of Freiburg, Germany, Department of Anthropology, 2008.

Presenter:  Neurocultures, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, 2009; Anthropologies of Addiction, McGill University, 2009; Workshop Organization and participation, 2009; Studying Global Health, Harvard University, 2009.

ROUSSEAU, J. 

2)  "Is the notion of mode of production universally relevant?"  Social Evolution and History 7.2 (2008): 135-148.

SALZMAN, P.C.

1)  Culture and Conflict in the Middle East, Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2008.

Salzman, P. C. and Donna Robinson Divine, eds. Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict, London: Routledge, 2008.

2)  “Politics and Change among the Baluch in Iran,” Middle East Strategy at Harvard, Paper No. 2,   http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/, 2008

“Persians and Others:  Iran’s Minority Politics”, Middle East Strategy at Harvard, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/04/persians-and-others-irans-minority-politics/, April 2009

3)  Invited lectures:  “The Tribal Basis of Middle Eastern Culture”, Middle East Forum, NY, January 2008 and Philadelphia, January 2008; “The Tribal Foundation of Middle Eastern Islamic Culture”, Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, Washington, April 2008; “The Tribal Foundation of Arab Culture”, Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, November 2008; “Anthropology and Security Studies”, Middle East Strategy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., September 2008; “Tribes and Conflict in the Middle East,” conference on Unconventional Warfare, Special Forces Command, Central Command, Virginia, August 2008; “Persians and Others:  Minorities in Iran”, Conference on Iran, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Ottawa, Ontario, March 2009.

SCOTT, C. 

1)  Scott, Colin. “James Bay Cree.” Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 2, Indians in Contemporary Society. Eds. Garrick Bailey, vol. ed., W.C. Sturtevant, general ed.  Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 2008. 252-260.

2)  Scott, Colin. Expert Report on the Confidential Nature of Information Provided by Crees for the Elaboration of Forest Management Plans Pursuant to the Agreement Concerning a New Relationship between Le Gouvernement du Québec  and the Crees of Quebec.  Evidence prepared for the Commission de l'accès à l'information (Québec). Grand Council of the Crees of Eeyou Istchee. April 28, 2008. 41 pp.

Scott, Colin. Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim, Statement and Report of Colin Scott, Anthropologist, Federal Court of Australia QUD 6040/2001, between Leo Akiba and George Mye on behalf of the Torres Strait Islanders of the Regional Seas Claim Area, Applicant, and the State of Queensland and Others, Respondents. September 8, 2008. 500pp.

Scott, Colin. Affidavit of Colin Scott, Federal Court of Canada, between The Cree Nation of Mistissini and Charlo Gunner, Kenny Coonishish, Philip James Shecapio, Charlie Coon-Blacksmith, James A. Gunner, Abraham Etapp, Isaac Etapp, Charlie Etapp, Joseph P. Sheccapio, Harry Bosum and Sam Bosum, Applicants, and the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Respondents. September 9, 2008. 9pp.

Mulrennan, Monica, Véronique Bussières and Colin Scott. 2009. Tawich (Marine) Conservation Area, Eastern James Bay. The Wemindji-McGill Protected Area Project. January 20. 54 pp.

Scott, Colin. Torres Strait Regional Sea Claim, Supplementary Report of Colin Scott, Anthropologist, Federal Court of Australia QUD 6040/2001, between Leo Akiba and George Mye on behalf of the Torres Strait Islanders of the Regional Seas Claim Area, Applicant, and the State of Queensland and Others, Respondents. January 14, 2009. 70pp.

3)  Keynote Speaker: “Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment: James Bay Crees and Hydro-electricity.” Keynote address presented at the Conference, ‘Cultural Impact Assessment: Beyond the Bio-physical,’ International Association for Impact Assessment, Western and Northern Canada Affiliate, Yellowknife, Feb. 28-29, 2008.

Invited Papers: “Translating Rights.” Session on ‘Land, Cultural and Political Imagination, and Indigenous Futures in Remote Communities in Canada and Australia: A Comparative Perspective.’ Canadian Anthropological Society Meetings, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 7-9, 2008; “Dialoguing Knowledges: Cree Knowledge and Transdisciplinary Research at James Bay.” Paper presented in the session, ‘The Challenges of Collaborative Ethnographic Research.’ Canadian Anthropological Society Meetings, University of British Columbia, May 13-16.

Seminar:  “Knowledge-Sharing Alliances for Environmental Protection and Cultural Continuity among James Bay Cree.” Presentation to joint McGill School of Environment/ Department of Anthropology Seminar, March 16.

VACCARO, I. 

1)  Vaccaro, I. and Norman, K. 2008. Social Sciences and Landscape Analysis: opportunities for the improvement of conservation policy design. Journal of Environmental Management 88: 360-371.

Aswani, S. and Vaccaro, I. 2008. Lagoon Ecology and Social Strategies: Habitat Diversity and Ethnobiology. Human Ecology 36(3): 325-341.

3)  Papers:  “The unfinished transformation: governmental technologies in the Western mountains”, Invited to the Agrarian Studies School Workshop. Yale University. 2008. Co-author: O., Beltran; “Livestock versus 'wild beasts': the contradictions of the natural patrimonialization of the Pyrenees”, Meetings of the American Association of Geographers, Boston. Co-author: O., Beltran; “Patrimonialización de la naturaleza: el marco social de las políticas ambientales”. XI Congreso de Antropología de la Federación de Asociaciones de Antropología del Estado Español. Co-authors: O, Beltran and Pascual, J., 2008; “Analysis of Social Variables and Natural Resources Management Policy Design: integrating ecology and society”. National Fisheries, Uganda, 2008; “How can conservation biology best prepare for declining population growth rates and global urbanization?” Resilience Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times Conference. Stockholm, Sweden. Co-authors: Jacobs, A., Sengupta, R., and Chapman, C., 2008; “Patrimony and consumption: rethinking the relationships between rural areas and cities.” The Stockholm Seminars: frontiers in sustainability science and policy. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Co-author: O. Beltran, 2009; “Archipelago of Governmentalities: Enfolding Modernity at the Edge of Guyana’s Rainforest Frontier”. Canadian Anthropology Society Meetings. Co-author: G. Gregory, 2009.

Invited lecture:  “Anthropogenic Landscapes”. Invited lecture to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Barcelona, 2008.

Proceedings:  Beltran, O., Pascual, J. and Vaccaro, I. (eds.) 2008.  “Patrimonialización de la naturaleza. El marco social de las políticas ambientales.” Ankulegi y Universidad del País Vasco, Donosti [proceedings], 2008.

YOUNG, A.

3)  Papers presented:  “Empathic Cruelty:  An Evolutionary Narrative for the Twenty-First Century”, in Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture, University of British Columbia.  October 2008; “History in Trauma”, in Globalization of Psychiatry and the Languages of Suffering, Trauma, Violence and Resilience, CESAME, University of Paris 5, June 2008; “Therapeutic Discourse and the Science of Empathy”, in Medical Anthropology and Therapeutic Discourse, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, June 2008;  “History in Trauma”, at Globalization of Psychiatry and the Languages of Suffering, Trauma, Violence and Resilience, CESAME, University of Paris 5, June 2008; “Empathic Cruelty and the Evolution of the Social Brain”, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), June 2008; “Psychopathy and the Social Brain”, in Neurocultures, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, February 2009;  “Psychopatholgy in the Social Brain”, in Critical Neuroscience, University of California at Los Angeles and the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, January 2009..

Co-Organizer (with G. Weisz, McGill): “Mind, Brain and Society”, participants from McGill, University of Paris 5, Keio University (Tokyo), and Tel Aviv University, McGill University, September 2008

Co-Organizer (with S. Lanzoni and R. Brain): “Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture”, participants from Canada, USA, Denmark, Germany, University of British Columbia, SSHRC funded, October 2008

Invited Lectures:  “Empathic Cruelty and the Evolution of Human Nature”, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, October 2008 and École des hautes études en sciences socials, Paris, June 2008; “Stress and the Heterostatic Body”, Department of the History of Medicine, Exeter University, November 2008; “Enduring Misconceptions Concerning Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth University, September 2008; “Empathic Cruelty and the Evolution of the Social Brain”.

COURSE LECTURERS:

LOFTHOUSE, S.

4)  A comparison of two Neoeskimo faunal assemblages from Nunavik

Climate, Environment and the Thule Culture in the Holocene Arctic: IPY Workshop  Copenhagen, Denmark,  May 2009

OLOFSSON, E. 

1)  “The Story of Markoosie Patsauq’s Trip to the TB Sanatorium in The Pas.” Makivik Magazine Winter 2007-2008, Issue 83.

 “Indigenous Spirituality – Local and Gobal.”  Baiki – The International Sami Journal. Issue#29 Winter 2008.

3)  Invited presentation: Presented together with co-author Tara Holton,“Are You Now a Qallunaaq?”  Inuit Tuberculosis Evacuees in the 1940’s-1950’s: Negotiating Identities in Changing times and Changing Cultural Contexts, Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, The Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, May 21.

Poster presentations: Co-author Tara Holton, “Are You Now a Qallunaaq?”  Inuit Tuberculosis Evacuees in the 1940’s-1950’s: Negotiating Identities in Changing times and Changing Cultural Contexts, “Peace, Conflict, & Reconciliation: Contributions of Cultural Psychiatry,” Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, May 1-2, 2008; Presented by co-author Tara Holton, “Are You Now a Qallunaaq?”  Inuit Tuberculosis Evacuees in the 1940’s-1950’s: Negotiating Identities in Changing times and Changing Cultural Contexts, The First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) of Health Canada, Montreal, April 16-18, 2008.

Paper presentation: Co-author Tara Holton, Going to the hospital and not knowing why”-The Inuit Tuberculosis Evacuees in the 1940’s-1950’s, CASCA (The Annual Meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society), Carleton University, Ottawa, May. Organizer of the session, 2008.

VANTHUYNE, K.

1) Vanthuyne, Karine. "Souffrance sociale en paroles". Vivre à la marge. Réflexions autour de la souffrance sociale. Ed. Louise Blais. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008, pp. 37-52.

Vanthuyne, Karine. "Ethnographier les silences de la violence".  Anthropologie et Société. 32.hors-série (2008), pp. 64-71.

Vanthuyne, Karine. "Guatemala : Se souvenir de la guerre, devenir une victime ? ". Problèmes d’Amérique Latine. 68 (2008), pp. 81-100.

Vanthuyne, Karine. "Ethnographier les silences de la violence ".  Anthropologie et Société. 32. hors-série (2008), pp. 64-71.

Vanthuyne, Karine. "Guatemala : Se souvenir de la guerre, devenir une victime ? ".  Problèmes d’Amérique Latine. 68 (2008), pp. 81-100.

Vanthuyne, Karine. "Souffrance sociale en paroles ». Vivre à la marge. Réflexions autour de la souffrance sociale". Ed. Louise Blais. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2008, pp. 37-52.

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR:

FERRARA, N. 

1)  “The Political Aspects of Emotions and Psychotherapy among the Quebec Cree,” Thule: Rivista italiana di studi americanistici, no. 18/19, co-authored with Professor Guy Lanoue, 2008.

3)  Papers presented:  “INAC and Aboriginal Peoples: Working Together to Foster Sustainable Development”, First Nation Social Development Steering Society Conference, Vancouver, BC, February 2009; “Aboriginal Remote Communities South of 60”, International Comprehensive Community Planning Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, September, 2008.

POST-RETIREMENT FACULTY:

IKAWA-SMITH, F.

2)  Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko. “Japanese  Archipelago,  Paleolithic cultures.” Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Ed. Deborah Pearsall. New York: Academic Press, 2008.

Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko. “Kenewikku-jin to Ainu-jin” [“Kennewick Man and the Ainu”]. Montreal Bulletin 68.1  (2008) 2.

Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko. “Serizawa Chosuke sensei to Kanada ni okeru Nippon kokogaku kenkyu.” [“Professor Chosuke Serizawa and research into Japanese archaeology in Canada”]. Serizawa Chosuke-sensei Tsuito Koko-Minzoku-Rekishi-gaku Ronso [Essays in Archaeology, Ethnology and History,  in Memory of Professor Chosuke Serizawa]. Ed. Committee to Publish Volume in Memory of Prof. Serizawa. Tokyo: Rokuichi Shobo, 2008. 723-9.

Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko. “Kebbeku-shu montorioru-shi ni okeru Magiru Daigaku no koreisha gakushu gurupu no tenkai”  [“‘Peer-design and peer-learning’: Life-long education program at McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement (MILR)”]. Report on International Research Forum: Anthropology of Life Design and Well-Being. Ed. Nanami Suzuki. Senri: National Museum of Ethnology, 2009. 61-64. 

Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko. Reply to comments by Prof. H. Endo and Prof. H. Shirouzu. Report on International Research Forum: Anthropology of Life Design and Well-Being. Ed. Nanami Suzuki. Senri: National Museum of Ethnology, 2009. 69-70. 

3)  Invited Lecture: “The Origins of the Japanese People.” Japanese-Canadian Culture Centre of Montreal, April 9, 2008; ”Kebbeku-shu montorioru-shi ni okeru Magiru Daigaku no koreisha gakushu gurupu no tenkai” [“‘Peer-design and peer-learning’: Life-long education program at McGill Institute for Learning in Retirement (MILR)”]. International Research Forum: Anthropology of Life Design and Well-Being. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. February 28, 2009.

Paper presentations:  “‘Obsidian Roads’ of the Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherers in Pacific Northeast Asia.” The Society for East Asian Archaeology, 4th World Congress, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, June 4, 2008; “Positioning the Ainu in the construction of national history for Japan.” World Archaeology Congress-6, Dublin, Ireland, July 3, 200; “From the ‘former aboriginal’ to the real ‘indigenous people’: socio-political background for the archaeological reconstruction of Japan’s national history.” 21st Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada, Waterloo, Ontario, October 5, 2008; .

4)  Participant:  Workshop on “Archaeology of Culture Contact in East Asia”. University of British Columbia, March 26, 2008.

Participant and the designated Discussant:  "Prehistoric Jomon of Japan and Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways”,  A Public symposium at the University of California, Berkeley. Sept. 19-20, 2008

"‘Peer-design and peer-learning’: Life-long education program at McGill Institute for Learning Retirement”.

International Workshop:  “Concept of Well-being and Alternative care in Canada and Denmark. National Museum of Ethnology, Senri, Japan.  February 27, 2009. 

 "‘Peer-design and peer-learning’: Life-long education program at McGill Institute for Learning Retirement”.

International Workshop on “Concept of Well-being and Alternative care in Canada and Denmark. National Museum of Ethnology, Senri, Japan.  February 27, 2009.   

LOCK, M. 

1)  Biosociality and Susceptibility Genes: A Cautionary Tale. In, Sarah Gibbon and Carlos Novas eds., Biosocialities,Genetics and the Social Sciences, 2008, London: Routledge pp. 56-78.

Demoting the Genetic Body in Ruth Kutalek, Armin Prinz eds. Essays in Medical Anthropology. The Austrian Ethnomedical Society after Thirty Years. Wiener Ethnomedizinische Reihe Volume 6. 2009, Wien Muenster: LIT Verlag.

APOE Genotyping, Risk Estimates, and Public Understanding of Susceptibility  Genes. with Adam Hedgecoe, in  Jesse Bollinger, Peter Whitehouse et al. eds., Do We Have a Pill for That? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the  Development, Use, and Evaluation of Drugs in the Treatment of Dementia. 2008, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp.231-249.

Are Genes Us? Postgenomic Bodies and Identity, 2009, Anthropologica 51: 159-172.

3.  Invited Lectures:  “Re-situating the Genetic Body: From Structure to Function”, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Centenary symposium in honor of Professor Claude Levi-Strauss, 2008; “Seduced by Plaques and Tangles: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Cerebral Subject”, 2008, A. Young’s Workshop, McGill University; “Social Repercussions of Testing for Susceptibility Genes”, Plenary lecture, Canadian Society of Geneticists, St. Johns, Newfoundland, 2008; “Divining the Future: Genetic Testing for Susceptibility Genes”, Invited lecture, Faculty of Arts, Wilfred Laurier University, 2008; “Genomic Divinations, Molecular Genetics, Epigenetics, and Calculations of Future Risk”, Invited Public lecture I, Keio University, Tokyo, 2008; “Genomics and the State: Is an Era of Neoeugenics in the Offing?”, Invited Public lecture II, Keio University, Tokyo, 2008; “Biomedical Technologies and Transformations in Society and Self”, Invited Public lecture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 2008; “Divining the Future: Genetic Testing for Susceptibility Genes”, The MacNamara Lecture, McGill University, 2009; “Demoting the Genetic Body and Testing for Susceptibility Genes”, Faculty of Arts Lecture, University of Ottawa, 2009; “Demoting the Genetic Body and Learning Again to Live with Uncertainty”, Invited lecture, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, 2009; “Divining the Future: Genetic Testing for Susceptibility Genes”,  Invited lecture, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, 2009; “When Genotype and Phenotype are both Capricious: Prognosticating Alzheimer’s-type Dementia”, Invited Lecture, The New Genomics: Public Health, Social and Clinical Implications, University of Bristol, UK, 100th Centennial, 2009.

MORANTZ, T. 

3)  Papers presented: “Framing the History and the Anthropology of Regina Flannery Herzfeld”, Conference in Tribute to Regina Flannery, Catholic University America, April 24, 2008; “The Annual Indian and Metis Conferences in the early 1960s: A Retrospective”, 40th Algonquian Conference, University of Minnesota., October 22-24, 2008.