Moving Together

Edited by Allana C. Lindgren, Batia Boe Stolar, and Clara Sacchetti
Subjects: Performing Arts, Cultural Studies, Ethnography

Moving Together: Pluralism and Dance in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada.

Focusing on the twentieth ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Ethnography, Art, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Bird-Bent Grass

By Kathleen Venema
Subjects: Life Writing, Ethnography, Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through ...

Ecologies of the Moving Image

By Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Subjects: Film & Media, Ethnography, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, ...

This Spot of Ground

By Carol B. Duncan
Subjects: Religion, Ethnography, Social Science, Emigration & Immigration, Women’s Studies

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas ...

Fields in Motion

Edited by Dena Davida
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Ethnography

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture. The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, ...

Ecologies of Affect

Edited by Tonya K. Davidson, Ondine Park, and Rob Shields
Subjects: Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Urban Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, ...

Travel and Religion in Antiquity

Edited by Philip A. Harland
Subjects: Ethnography, Religion
Series: Studies in Christianity and Judaism

Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly ...

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts

Edited by Robin Elliott & Gordon E. Smith
Subjects: Ethnography, Indigenous Studies, Music

Music Traditions, Cultures, and Contexts is a tribute to the ethnomusicologist Beverley Diamond in recognition of her outstanding scholarly accomplishments. The volume includes essays by leading ethnomusicologists ...

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Edited by Richard J. Preston
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Biography & Autobiography, Ethnography

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing ...