Department of Anthropology

Publications

Reading in the library

The UVic Library subscribes to numerous Anthropology journals

Our department is involved in the publication of two periodically issued publications: the student-organized PlatForum , and Canadian Zooarchaeology .

Recent Faculty and Student Publications

Highlighted below are select, recent publications drawn from our community of scholars, relevant to our integrative departmental research themes . Expanded lists of publications can be found on individual profiles.


Evolution & Ecology


A. Gemmill and Lisa Gould 2008 Microhabitat Variation and Its Effects on Dietary Composition and Intragroup Feeding Interactions Between Adult Female Lemur catta During the Dry Season at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Southwestern Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology 29:1511–1533.


H. Kurki , J. Ginter, J. Stock & S. Pfeiffer 2008 Adult Proportionality in Small-Bodied Foragers: A Test of Ecogeographic Expectations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 136:28-38 DOI 10.1002/ajpa.20774


Y. M. Lam 2008 Variability in Cementum Deposition in Springbok on the South African Cape. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:1062-1073.


M. Steffen and Q. Mackie 2006 An Experimental Approach to Understanding Burnt Fish Bone Assemblages within Archaeological Hearth Contexts. Canadian Journal of Zooarchaeology 23:11-39.


April Nowell 2010 Defining Behavioral Modernity in the Context of Neandertal and Anatomically Modern Human Populations.  Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 437-452.

2010 Working Memory and the Speed of Life.  Current Anthropology 51(S1): S121-S133.


Eric Roth , Masako Fujita and Elizabeth Ngugi 2006. Self-Deception Does Not Explain High Risk Sexual Behavior in the Face of HIV/AIDS. Evolution and Human Behavior 27:53-62.


Indigenous Peoples


Michael Asch 2007 Governmentality, State Culture, and Indigenous Rights. Anthropologica 49(2).


D. Fedje, Q. Mackie , N. Smith & D. McLaren 2009 Function, Visibility and Interpretation of Archaeological Sites at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in Haida Gwaii. In T. Goebel and I. Buvit, eds., Explaining Lithic Assemblage Variability Across Beringia . College Station : Texas A & M University Press.


Ann Stahl 2008 The Slave Trade as Practice and Memory. What are the Issues for Archaeologists? In Catherine M Cameron, ed., Invisible Citizens: Captives and their Consequences , pp. 25-56. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press.


Brian Thom 2009 The Paradox of Boundaries in Coast Salish Territories . Cultural Geographies 16:179-205. [ full or abstract ]


Andrea Walsh 2009 Healthy Bodies, Strong Citizens: Okanagan Children's Drawings and the Canadian Red Cross. In Loren Lerner, ed., Depicting Canada 's Children. Waterloo, Ontario. Wilfred Laurier Press.


Visual Anthropology and Materiality


Lisa Mitchell 2006 Child-centered? Thinking Critically about Children's Drawing as a Visual Research Method. Visual Anthropology Review 22(1): 60-73.


April Nowell 2011. A Question of Style: Reconsidering the Stylistic Approach to Dating Paleolithic Parietal Art in France.  Genevieve von Petzinger and April Nowell.  Antiquity 85 (330).  Available on-line in November at: ANTIQUITY JOURNAL


Ann Stahl 2010 Material Histories. In Dan Hicks and Mary Beudry, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Material Cultural Studies, pp. 148-170. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


Andrea Walsh and Dominic Lopes 2009 Objects of Appropriation. In Conrad Brunk and James Young,eds., The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, pp. 211-234. Malden, MA. Blackwell Publishing.


Inequality, Culture, Health


Rebecca Kukla, Miriam Kupperman, Margaret Little, Anne D. Lyerly, Lisa M. Mitchell , Elizabeth Armstrong, and Lisa Harris 2009 Finding Autonomy in Birth. Bioethics [Special Issue: Reproductive Autonomy] 23(1):1-8.


Heidi Exner, Erin K Gibson, Ryan Stone, Jennifer Lindquist, Laura Cowen and Eric A Roth 2009 Worry as a window into the lives of people who use injection drugs: a factor analysis approach . Harm Reduction Journal 2009, 6:20

Peter Stephenson 2009 “Lessons from Abroad: Ageing, Agency and Intentional Communities, In Foster, L., Hultsch, D., Cloutier-Fisher, D., eds., Health and Aging in British Columbia : Vulnerability and Resilience. Canadian Western Geographical Series, Victoria: Western Geographical Press


Margot Wilson 2004 Stolen Childhood: Cultural Constructions of "Unmarried" Pregnancy in Bangladesh. In Carol Camp Yeakey , Tracey Reed, Jeanita Richardson eds., "Suffer the Little Children": National and International Dimensions of Child Poverty and Policy. Oxford, England: Elsevier.