• The emergence of national parks in Russia : with studies of Pribaikalski and Zabaikalski National Parks in the Lake Baikal region of south-central Siberia 

  Tripp, Michael William (2017-08-09)

  The recent establishment of an impressive network of national parks within first the Soviet Union and then post-Soviet Russia can be viewed as representative of ongoing shifts in relationships between valuations of nature ...
• Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography 

  Larson, Greger; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Perri, Angela; Webster, Matthew T.; Ho, Simon Y. W.; Peters, Joris; Stahl, Peter W.; Piper, Philip J.; Lingaas, Frode; Fredholm, Merete; Comstock, Kenine E.; Modiano, Jamie F.; Schelling, Claude; Agoulnik, Alexander I.; Leegwater, Peter A.; Dobney, Keith; Vigne, Jean-Denis; Vila, Carles; Andersson, Leif; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2012)

  The dog was the first domesticated animal but it remains uncertain when the domestication process began and whether it occurred just once or multiple times across the Northern Hemisphere. To ascertain the value of modern ...
• Moralizing violence: the righteous breaking of the condemned 

  Tucker, Jeanique (2017-08-08)

  The body exposes violence by mirroring it, stripping it of its metaphysics, ideology, and teleology. Using the colonizer/colonized, master/slave and lord/bondsman dialectics to frame our discussion, we tell the story of ...
• Fabricar o Funk em Cidade Tiradentes, São Paulo: performance em etnoficção 

  Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine; Caiuby Novaes, Sylvia; Hijiki, Rose Satiko Gitirana (Cultures-Kairos, 2017-01)

  O artigo discute a experiência da produção de Fabrik Funk, uma etnoficção sobre o gênero musical mais ouvido e dançado na periferia de São Paulo. O objetivo é pensar tanto a performance dos protagonistas do filme – produtores ...
• Fabriquer le funk à Cidade Tiradentes, São Paulo: la performance d’une ethnofiction 

  Hijiki, Rose Satiko Gitirana; Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine; Caiuby Novaes, Sylvia (2016)

  Cet article porte sur l’expérience de production de Fabrik Funk, une ethnofiction sur le genre musical le plus écouté et dansé dans la périphérie de São Paulo. Le but de l’article est de penser autant à la performance des ...
• Microtopia in Counterpoint: Relational Aesthetics and the Echo Project 

  Boudreault-Fournier, Alexandrine (Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, 2016)

  This article takes as its starting point the ethnographic experience of producing and editing a series of video clips that virtually unite musicians who have never met and who live in different places; it engages with the ...
• Bringing Indigenous Kamchatka to Google Earth: Collaborative Digital Mapping with the Itelmen Peoples 

  Thom, Brian; Colombi, Benedict J.; Degai, Tatiana (Sibirica, 2016)

  Indigenous peoples in the Russian Far East are engaged in vibrant cultural and linguistic resurgence and revitalization through their community and regional organizations. Through the activities of one of these organizations, ...
• In church and city: Canadian political sanctuary’s four characteristics, questions about its success, and its relationship with the state 

  Chmielewski, Michael (2017-08-04)

  This thesis explores the increasingly relevant sanctuary phenomenon in the Canadian context by studying church-based sanctuary and Sanctuary City. These two main applications of Canadian political sanctuary experience ...
• Planning the campus with place in mind: a phenomenological exploration of the lifeworlds of community college campuses in British Columbia 

  Domae, Lisa (2017-07-20)

  This phenomenological study contributes to scholarship on the geographies of higher education by examining the importance of “place” for the design and planning of college campuses. In particular, the study explores the ...
• Interactions Between Humans and Endemic Canids in Holocene South America 

  Stahl, Peter W. (Journal of Ethnobiology, 2012)

  Humans inhabiting South America during early portions of the Holocene variably interacted with native foxes (Family Canidae) in different parts of the continent at a time when there is little firm evidence for the presence ...
• Early Dogs and Endemic South American Canids of the Spanish Main 

  Stahl, Peter W. (Journal of Anthropological Research, 2013)

  Although common and widespread today throughout the neotropical lowlands, the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) may have been a relatively recent introduction into certain areas. Numerous early documents, however, ...
• The effects of executive function and attention training for children: the role of motivation and self-concept 

  MacSween, Jennifer Vankova (2017-07-13)

  The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a cognitive and metacognitive intervention program (Caribbean Quest; CQ), on improving cognitive and social self-concepts (i.e., evaluative self-perceptions, including ...
• Self-regulation of healthy eating: the role of motivation and approach-avoidance goals 

  Maillet, Myles A. (2017-06-28)

  Research on healthy eating motivation has shown that people who are autonomously motivated tend to engage in healthier eating behaviours than people with controlled forms of motivation (Ng et al., 2012; Verstuyf et al., ...
• Coldness and compassion: the abnegation of desire in the political realm 

  Charlebois, Tim (2017-06-22)

  The concept of compassion has recently held a controversial role in political thought. Critics have tied it with the condescension and latent self-interest of pity, while proponents have asserted it as the ethical posture ...
• The Relative utility of implicit memory tasks and a forced-choice memory test for the detection of simulated brain injury deficits 

  Fisher, Kimberly Gail (2017-06-15)

  Clinical neuropsychologists are often called upon to make decisions on the genuineness of cognitive deficits following a head injury. This is a difficult task, particularly when deficits are subtle, as there are few ...
• Olfactory identification decline: a preclinical biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease 

  Knight, Jamie (2017-06-12)

  The earliest stage of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology begins in one of the main components of the olfactory pathway, the entorhinal cortex, making deficits in smell a potential prospective biomarker for the early detection ...
• The relationship of personality disorders and persistent post concussive syndrome in mild head injury 

  Alyman, Cheryl Ann (2017-06-05)

  The relationship of personality disorders and persistent post concussive syndrome (PPCS) in mild head injury was investigated. Personality disorders were measured with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCM-II). ...
• Implicit theories of aging : predictions of developmental change in parents versus generalized adults 

  Vernon, Anne Elizabeth (2017-06-02)

  Two studies were conducted to investigate how normative conceptions of aging compare with adult children's expectations of change for their parents. In Study 1, the Implicit Theories of Aging Questionnaire (ITAQ) was ...
• The mountain pine beetle, climate change, and scientists : understanding science's responses to rapid ecological change in Western Canada 

  Lettrari, Heike (2017-06-01)

  Today, climate change and rapid ecological change are impacting our ecosystems and landscapes in numerous, often surprising ways. These changes result in social, cultural, ecological, and economic shifts, as exemplified ...
• Canadian-American value differences : media portrayals of Native issues 

  Ravelli, Bruce Douglas (2017-05-29)

  One of the defining debates of sociology is the nature of the relationship between the individual and society. One sociologist, Seymour Martin Lipset, investigated this relationship through his analysis of Canadian and ...

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