• Form and Function of Food-Associated Calling in the Rekambo Community of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) in Loango National Park, Gabon 

  Warshawski, Lindsey (2023-09-28)

  An important question in human evolution is when, how, and why did our species develop language. While the gap between human and non-human communication is significant, the cognitive precursors of human language are argued ...
• A Landscape Archaeological Approach to Accumulative Stone Throwing (AST) in West African Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) 

  Nakano, Robyn (2023-05-25)

  In Boé National Park in Guinea-Bissau, a community of wild Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) has been observed engaging in a novel, potentially cultural, behaviour, accumulative stone throwing (AST). Individuals ...
• The gift and the market: alternative economic relations in the Comox Valley local exchange trading system 

  Blacklock, Brayden (2023-04-28)

  The Comox Valley Local Exchange Trading System (LETSystem) was a complementary community monetary system active in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island during the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on archival sources and ethnographic ...
• Stability and Crisis: Creating a Sense of Home in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside 

  Taylor, Sophia (2023-04-27)

  Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) is an extensively researched neighbourhood, as the nexus of the city’s affordable housing crisis. The lack of affordable apartments and houses in the area has led to widespread improvisation ...
• Walking-With Wellness: Understanding Intersections of Indigenous Literacy and Health Through Podcasting 

  Toorenburgh, Lydia (2023-01-30)

  Have you ever seen a doctor and been sent home with forms and pamphlets to read and fill out? Reading and writing in English is a key skill for patients to access quality health care in Canada. Recent research demonstrates ...
• Legal Entanglements in Place: Hul'q'umi'num' law, provincial jurisdiction and the protection of Hw'teshutsun, a Hul'q'umi'num' cultural landscape 

  Argan, Jennifer (2022-12-09)

  In 2001, Cowichan Tribes successfully negotiated the protection of an important cultural landscape, preventing imminent logging and development through a treaty-related measures (TRM) agreement with British Columbia (BC), ...
• Ethno-Graphic Gatherings of Nonbinary Visual Narratives on TikTok 

  Costain, Raey (2022-09-07)

  This thesis is an exploration in graphic anthropology alongside a digital community of nonbinary people on the social media app, TikTok. Nonbinary visuality is a complicated and still poorly understood set of experiences ...
• Learning at Ye'yumnuts in Reflections 

  Martindale, Ella (2022-09-02)

  This document represents a holistic account of two years’ work thinking about place-based learning at Ye’yumnuts from a Quw’utsun Mustimuhw perspective. In acknowledging individual and collective responsibility, and ...
• ‘In the Flesh’: Skeletal Embodiment and Subjectivities in Practice 

  Campeau-Bouthillier, Cassandre (2022-08-23)

  This dissertation presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study among individuals who practice yoga and/or chiropractic care in Victoria, British Columbia, focusing on their experiences of their musculoskeletal ...
• Climbing as a possible selective pressure shaping the human gluteus maximus: An investigation using musculoskeletal modeling and electromyography 

  Dias, Rae (2022-08-19)

  Differences between humans and extant apes in the pelvis and its key muscle attachment sites are thought to reflect a trade-off between arboreal and bipedal locomotor abilities. Human pelvic morphology enables the ...
• Indigenous archaeological fisheries records provide evidence of multiple baselines in the northeast Pacific 

  Hillis, Dylan (2022-04-29)

  It is well recognized that humans have had a significant role in transforming terrestrial landscapes, yet comparatively little research has examined the long-term impacts of humans on marine ecosystems. As an applied field ...
• wałšiʔałin ʔuuʔaałuk̓i ḥaḥuułi: Coming home to take care of the territory: a project of (re)connecting with traditional lands, waters, knowledge, and identity 

  Happynook, Tommy (2022-04-29)

  Written from a nuučaan̓uł perspective this dissertation documents the reclamation of knowledge, teachings, culture, language, responsibilities, and identity through my personal (re)connection to my family’s ḥaḥuułi and ...
• La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) and La Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas de la Amazonía Ecuatoriana (CONFENIAE) online and on-the-ground: representational choices and Indigenous media sovereignty 

  Hagestedt, Elizabeth (2021-09-28)

  The development of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has influenced all aspects of communication and representation, altering the ways in which humans interact on a daily basis. Within politics and ...
• Fisheries at a new scale: the contributions of archaeological fish scales in understanding Indigenous fisheries in Wuikinuxv First Nation territory and beyond 

  Ball, Alyssa Megan (2021-06-02)

  Archaeological fisheries information represented in fish scales provides relative abundance and age-at-harvest data that can assist in understanding a range of culturally vital Indigenous fisheries. In this thesis, I ...
• The Japanese communities of Cumberland, British Columbia 1885-1942: portrait of a past 

  Thomas, Cheryl Maeva (2021-06-01)

  This study is about a group of Japanese immigrants and their families who lived in Cumberland, a coal mining centre on Vancouver Island, during the first four decades of this century. Specifically, it is about a Japanese ...
• Welcome back to caveman times: social consequences of (mis)representations of the Paleolithic 

  Hendrick, Jenna (2021-04-30)

  Among the American population, there is a general misunderstanding of human evolution and human life in the Paleolithic. Beyond the mechanics of biological evolution, there is confusion over what sorts of modern-day behaviors ...
• Hominin survival and lithic procurement strategies at a Pleistocene desert refugium during periods of environmental stress: a case study from Shishan Marsh 1 in the Azraq Basin, Jordan 

  Beller, Jeremy A. (2021-01-11)

  A century of intermittent archaeological research in the Azraq Basin of the eastern desert of Jordan has demonstrated that a long period of hominin occupation exists in this environmentally inhospitable region during the ...
• Indigenous and Parks Canada Agency perspectives on the management of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve 

  Fitzsimmons, Andrew (2021-01-06)

  In the Gulf Islands and Salish Sea Regions of British Columbia the Parks Canada Agency (PCA) currently operates Gulf Islands National Park Reserve (GINPR) and is in the development phase for the proposed Southern Strait ...
• Looking beyond face value: neoliberal practices in a cleft lip and palate NGO 

  Ho, Hilary (2020-09-30)

  There has been a rise non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as part of a global health system that seeks to treat children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) in resource-poor countries. As a craniofacial abnormality, CLP ...
• Caring for lhuq'us (pyropia spp.): mapping and remote sensing of Hul'qumi'num culturally important seaweeds in the Salish Sea 

  Baker, Jack (2020-09-25)

  Hul’qumi’num communities on south eastern Vancouver Island have concerns about the status and safety of marine foods potentially impacted by environmental change and the urbanization and industrialization of their territories. ...

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