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a notable anthropology department on an island surrounded by the Salish Sea https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/anthropology/
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Brian Thom @b-thom.bsky.social interviewed by CKNW-AM about treaty land claims.
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Full Show: Understanding land claims, New rules for flying & Rules around climate transparency
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November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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My name is ḥapinyuuk. I am čaačaaciiʔasatḥ from the Huu-ay-aht First Nations. My English name is Tommy Happynook. My research documents the reclamation of knowledge, teachings, culture, language, responsibilities, and identity through my relationship to my family’s ḥahuułi (hereditary territory). In specific and intentional ways my research is part of a larger story of reconciliation and reclamation to ḥahuułi in which the lands, waters, skies, and the natural/spiritual worlds are not a place and/or object of inquiry, they are non-human knowledge holders and teachers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Today, November 24, 2025 at 11:30 am. Cornett B235

Transformation in Sámi Indigenous salmon fishing community
Aslat Holmberg: Sami fishermen, former president of Saami council and current chair of Sami central association of Finland.
Today, November 24, 2025 at 11:30 am. Cornett B235 Transformation in Sámi Indigenous salmon fishing community Aslat Holmberg: Sami fishermen, former president of Saami council and current chair of Sami central association of Finland.
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🇲🇽Mexico Ethnographic Field School 2026 🇲🇽
Application deadline extended: December 1, 2025
Visit our website for more details and link to the application.
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If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Mélissa Gauthier at meligau@uvic.ca
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November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Congratulations to our PhD student Graydon Smith on his peer-reviewed article titled "The Art of (Re-)Making Ruins: Between the Cracks of Cuban Media of Precarity".

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And What More? (2019). Photo credits: 2+2=5. Author’s translation
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Radical Alterity and the Decolonisation of Exchange: Not “Multiple Ontologies” but Ontic Capaciousness Dr. Chris Vasantkumar Senior Lecturer, School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University, Australia Monday, December 1st, 2025 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Cornett B235 This talk articulates a novel framework for understanding radical alterity (i.e., otherness that is more than merely cultural) in the aftermath of the abandonment of strong claims about ontological pluralism in recent works by key figures in anthropology’s Ontological Turn. In it I argue that both ontological anthropologists and important critics of their work have overemphasized the ideational at the expense of material practice. By contrast, I develop a materialist case for the continued relevance of radical alterity to the anthropological endeavour. I do so by elaborating a framework of “ontic capaciousness” centered on practice in a single, yet potentially plural world in which radical alterity can be understood as the materio-cultural precipitate of divergent modes of successful practical action. Framed in such a manner, I argue that the “bodies” of palpation-based traditional Chinese and dissection-based Western medicines are less different cultural representations of a single underlying Reality than they are material embodiments of divergent and incommensurable actionable realities. The talk concludes with some provocations concerning the potential of such a framework to aid in the decolonization of what I term the received settler-mercantile theories of exchange that have tended to over-stamp equivocal encounters between Indigenous peoples and Europeans in the era of colonial expansion as unequivocal examples of market exchange. Such over-stamping obscures the degree to which interactions such as the “purchase” of Manhattan Island were less the deals of the century than they were instances of the exploitative arbitraging of thresholds between value worlds. EVERYONE WELCOME
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Pucker up!

Dr. April Nowell commented on the evolutionary origin of kissing for Live Science's new article "Kissing goes back 21 million years, to the common ancestor of humans and other large apes, study finds"

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Kissing goes back 21 million years, to the common ancestor of humans and other large apes, study finds
Scientists traced kissing back to a primate ancestor that lived around 21 million years ago.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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We’re grateful to have Kay, our Administrative Officer, as part of our team. Kay feels privileged to work, live, and play on the traditional lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən, Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. In her role, Kay expertly manages program planning, labour relations across multiple unions, space management, budget administration, and provides invaluable support to both faculty and staff. Outside of her professional duties, she enjoys knitting cozy creations for loved ones, walking by the ocean with her furry companion, and crafting delicious meals from fresh, local ingredients. Currently, she’s spreading holiday cheer by baking a variety of tasty Christmas treats! 🍪🎄
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Today at 11:30! Cornett B235!

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ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Monday, November 17, 2025
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Cornett B235

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ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Community-based research in the Arctic - Indigenous guests from Greenland - ELOKA-PISUNA project Akatu (Pâviârak): administrator, PISUNA-Net Nuunoq (Per Ole Frederiksen) observer, PISUNA-Net Kikkik Olsen: interpreter Noor Johnson: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University of Colorado Boulder & principal investigator (PI), ELOKA Monday, November 17, 2025 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Cornett B235
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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My first time participating in CABA-ACAB, and I had a wonderful experience meeting so many great researchers!
Thank you for the opportunity to share our project on sequencing approaches for studying the gut microbiome of wild howler monkeys🐒🦠Huge thanks to the organizers at @uvicanthro.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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🚨 New issue alert! Anthropologica Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) is out now.

#Infrastructure is no longer invisible. This issue traces the stories, timelines, and tensions embedded in #Canada’s roads, grids, and extractive projects. 🔗 buff.ly/pPmrwX6

#Anthropology #ClimateJustice
Promotional graphic from UVic Publishing Services announcing a new issue of Anthropologica, Volume 67, Number 1 (2025), titled “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience.” The journal cover features an aerial photo of a rural highway interchange, emphasizing infrastructure complexity. Text reads: “NEW FROM UVIC PUBLISHING SERVICES — Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience — Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) — ANTHROPOLOGICA.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Congratulations to Dr. April Nowell and her team, whose work at Koonalda Cave in southern Australia made the cover of Current World Archaeology magazine.

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Koonalda Cave - World Archaeology
Far below the Nullarbor Plain in Australia lies an extraordinary gallery of rock art. Exploration and research in Koonalda Cave has revealed much about these ancient markings, as well as mining and th...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Greetings and a belated happy Halloween from Salem, Massachusetts! A popular tourist destination, Salem is known as "The Witch City," and it also happens to be my hometown, where my parents and I found a welcoming home as immigrants over a half century ago. Growing up and going to school here in the 1970s, my peers and I learned much about the local colonial history, from painstaking details of the Salem Witch Trials (Giles Corey haunted my childhood) and the role of Salem in the American revolution, but very little about the Indigenous people of the region for whom the state is named. We learned about Salem’s prominent role in the trade between America and Asia, but barely a hint of its complicity in the trans-Atlantic trade of enslaved African peoples. While I can’t say for sure that growing up in Salem had much to do with my becoming an archaeologist, nowadays, every trip home reminds me to think of the past and how to reconcile my gratitude for the kindness of this place towards my family with its complex history of harm and colonization. Wishing you all a pleasant Reading Break! Dr. Lam
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Congratulations to our alum, Mike Graeme (BA' 2018 in ANTH & ES) on winning the 2025 Webster Award for Excellence in Community Reporting for his article:
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‘Not our border’: How a colonial line shapes Tlingit lands — and my own ancestor’s role in it
A canoe trip across the ‘U.S.-Canada’ boundary reminds Mike Graeme of colonialism’s legacy — as he follows the path of his surveyor great-great-uncle
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November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Congratulations to all the students convocating this week. Thank you to those who chose #anthropology as their degree.

Interview with Jennifer Preece, Anthropology major/Indigenous Studies minor grad who walked across the stage today.

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UVic grad finds passion for archaeology - UVic News
Anthropology major and Indigenous Studies minor grad, Jennifer Preece, never imagined her interest in fish trap research would ignite her passion for
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November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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First time organizing a primatology session on behavioral flexibility in the Anthropocene, let alone first time organizing a conference! Easy to do with supportive co-organizers @uvicanthro.bsky.social, excellent volunteers and the wonderful CABA-ACAB community! @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Monday, November 17, 2025
11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Cornett B235

@uvic.ca @uvicsocialsciences.bsky.social #anthropology
ANTHROPOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES Community-based research in the Arctic - Indigenous guests from Greenland - ELOKA-PISUNA project Akatu (Pâviârak): administrator, PISUNA-Net Nuunoq (Per Ole Frederiksen) observer, PISUNA-Net Kikkik Olsen: interpreter Noor Johnson: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University of Colorado Boulder & principal investigator (PI), ELOKA Monday, November 17, 2025 11:30 am – 12:45 pm Cornett B235
November 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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We are now accepting applications for the Mexico Ethnographic Field School 2026.
Info here: tinyurl.com/2w2kkxm8
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Dr. Melissa Gauthier at meligau@uvic.ca
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Mexico Ethnographic Field School Poster
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Dr Erin McGuire is an award-winning instructor with a passion for experimental archaeology and experiential learning. This summer, they went to Leeds, UK, with a community partner to co-present a talk at the International Medieval Congress on medieval textiles. They are now working with their co-presenter to publish an article on using experimental and experiential approaches in undergraduate courses. These strategies foster deeper learning, hands-on engagement, and community-building. Erin first came to archaeology through medieval re-enactment circles and continues to engage with them when time permits, as the mix of play and research creates an inspiring environment for life-long learning. Erin brings re-enactors and community experts to the classroom and shares their academic research with re-enactment groups across the province. In addition to their teaching, archaeological, and community work, Erin also holds a 4th degree black belt in traditional Shorin Ryu karate.
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Crimean Stone Age 'crayons' were used by Neanderthals for symbolic drawings, study claims
Scientists have discovered Stone Age "crayons" in Crimea, hinting that Neanderthals may have used them for symbolic drawings or markings. But not everyone agrees.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art:
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...

April Nowell comments: “You only maintain a point on a crayon if you want to make precise lines or designs,”

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Prehistoric crayons provide clues to how Neanderthals created art
Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used pigments in symbolic ways
www.newscientist.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Featuring April Nowell:
Differences in red blood cells may have 'hastened the extinction' of our Neanderthal cousins, new study suggests

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Differences in red blood cells may have 'hastened the extinction' of our Neanderthal cousins, new study suggests
Gene variants in red blood cell function may have doomed the hybrid babies of Neanderthals and modern humans.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Dr. April Nowell comments in Live Science on Neandertal diets in an article titled "Did Neanderthals eat anything other than meat?"

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Did Neanderthals eat anything other than meat?
Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels.
www.livescience.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM