Western Anthropology

09/24/2026

08/12/2026

Incredible!

08/02/2026

Lindsay A. Bell conducts a sensitive ethnography of a Cold War-era high-rise in Hay River, Canada, through which she explores how people live with the architectural remnants of extractive and promissory pasts.

Access the piece in the AES Special Collection, Promised Futures:
https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/promised-futures/building-future-disappointments-architectures-of-extraction-in-sub-arctic-canada-by-lindsay-a-bell/

07/03/2026

Join us for our next Mentoring Workshop on JULY 29, 2 PM Eastern, featuring SANA members Dr. Clara Han and Dr. Catherine Fennell! Registration is required, just click on the link below:

registration link: https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/w8vwsixIR2qI98Y-Ysxteg

06/02/2026

Wow! Having a blast in St. Kitts!!

Meet Sierra, Sarah and Meria, who are taking the field school with Faculty of Social Science at Western University in St. Kitts & Nevis on historical archaeology & heritage.

They have been working as crew members conducting archaeological field survey, site excavations, and field laboratory work to gain a hands-on archaeological experience and learn more about field methods.

"I've learned so much about identifying different types of ceramics, and the cultural and historical implications of everything we're finding. It has been both an extremely exciting and memorable learning opportunity!" - Sierra, Sarah and Meria

Tune into our Instagram stories on Wednesday as they take us through a day in the field!

03/27/2026

Western faculty, Drs. Tania Granadillo and Lindsay Bell participated in a three-day Tłı̨chǫ language symposium as part of their work supporting language planning and reclamation.

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2026 Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì Symposium Report Highlights Shared Vision for Language Revitalization

The 2026 Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì Symposium (Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì Gha Ełets’ehdèe) recently concluded in Behchokǫ̀ and marked an important milestone in the ongoing work to protect, strengthen, and revitalize Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì. Over three days, the symposium brought together 248 participants from across the Tłı̨chǫ region and Yellowknife, including fluent speakers, youth, educators and researchers, in a strong show of shared commitment to intergenerational language learning.

From honouring language champions such as Jimmy Rabesca for his 60 years of service to exploring new digital tools and approaches for language revitalization, the symposium reflected both the strength of Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì today and the opportunities ahead. The gathering highlighted how the language continues to live in our homes, schools, workplaces, and communities, while also pointing to the importance of immersion programs, leadership, and everyday language use as key priorities for the future.

-- Download and read the report here: https://bit.ly/4rT5wUU --

Source: https://bit.ly/4suNLfL

03/18/2026

Weird times. I write about contemporary life through the lens of archaeology. Histories behind the headlines, artifacts of our time, pre-industrial skills we need, futurist anthropology. MacArthur Fellow, PhD Professor Emerita Univ Chicago. Click to read Chronoscope, by Shannon Lee Dawdy, a Substack...

10/02/2025

09/28/2025

https://theconversation.com/acting-with-one-mind-gwichin-lessons-for-truth-and-reconciliation-262826?utm_medium=article_native_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

Strength is not just survival. It is how Indigenous Peoples have always transformed oppression into collective action — and how we will face residential schools denialism today.

09/09/2025

GEHMAN LECTURE: SEPT 18th 1:30