• Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments, archaeology, and indicators of a glacial refugium on northern Vancouver Island, Canada 

  Hebda, Christopher Franklin George (2019-12-24)

  Recent research has revealed human settlement on the Pacific coast of Canada extending back nearly 14,000 years, but much of the late Pleistocene record is unknown due to shifting sea levels, poor understanding of Cordilleran ...
• Ts’a7inwa (gooseneck barnacles) as a proxy for archaeological efforts to understand shellfish as food in Nuu-chah-nulth territories 

  Efford, Meaghan Karyn (2019-10-03)

  This thesis examines the comparative abundance of shellfish from archaeological assemblages on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu-chah-nulth territories. Eighteen sites spanning the Nuu-chah-nulth region emphasize ...
• Learning to teach: Teaching assistants (TAs) learning in the workplace 

  Korpan, Cynthia Joanne (2019-09-19)

  Through an exploratory qualitative, interpretive frame that employed an ethnographic methodological approach, this research focuses on teaching assistants (TAs) teaching in a lab, tutorial, or discussion group. Nine TAs ...
• The Salt Spring dollar: toward a re-embedded economy 

  Cowan, Maya (2019-05-01)

  The Salt Spring dollar is a community currency founded Salt Spring Island, a Gulf Islands community located in the Salish Sea between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Currency use in 2018, nearly two decades ...
• Difficult and deadly deliveries?: Investigating the presence of an ‘obstetrical dilemma’ in medieval England through examining health and its effects on the bony human pelvis 

  Lamoureux, Thea Monique (2019-04-30)

  Difficult human childbirth is often explained to be the outcome of long term evolutionary hanges in the genus Homo resulting in an‘obstetrical dilemma,’defined as the compromise between the need for a large pelvis in ...
• Tracing Ice age artistic communities: 3D modeling finger flutings in the Franco-Cantabrian 

  Huang, Hsin-yee Cindy (2019-01-09)

  Finger flutings are lines and markings drawn with the human hand in soft cave sediment in caves and rock shelters throughout southern Australia, New Guinea and southwestern Europe, dating back to the Late Pleistocene. ...
• Coast Salish artist Douglas LaFortune: deconstructing Euro-settler narratives of Indigenous artistic practice and investigating active cultural practice through collaborative witnessing 

  Drummond, Justine Auben (2019-01-02)

  Douglas (Doug) LaFortune is a Coast Salish Master Carver and Graphic Artist of both Quw’utsun’ (Cowichan) and Tsawout, WSÁNEĆ (Saanich) heritage, with an artistic career spanning over four decades (City of Duncan 2013:2,6,21,28; ...
• Human-material interaction in the Aurignacian of Europe, 35,000-27,000 BP: an analysis of marine shell ornament distribution 

  Rogers, Lisa (2018-12-14)

  The Aurignacian period (35,000-27,000 BP) is the earliest phase of human occupation in the European Upper Paleolithic. As early inhabitants moved across the landscape they came into contact with others and left behind ...
• Understanding entrepreneurship: a definition and model based on economic activity and the pursuit of self-identity 

  McKenzie, Brian Bruce (2018-11-23)

  Entrepreneurship is a growing and important field of practice. Research in the field of entrepreneurship has been hampered by the lack of a clear paradigm of research and a common definition of the topic. This study reports ...
• Displaying truth and reconciliation: experiences of engagement between Alberni Indian Residential School survivors and museum professionals curating the Canadian History Hall 

  Clements, Bradley A. (2018-09-07)

  The re-curated Canadian History Hall (CHH) opened at the Canadian Museum of History (CMH) in Gatineau, Québec, on July 1st, 2017, becoming the first Canadian national narrative to exhibit the history, experiences, and ...
• Towards a historical ecology of halibut fishing on the Northwest Coast 

  Salmen-Hartley, Jacob Ulrich (2018-09-05)

  This thesis examines the enduring history of human interactions with Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) on the Northwest Coast of North America, through the framework of historical ecology, drawing on multiple lines ...
• Findings from the preliminary analysis of faunal remains at ancient Eleon 

  Bullock, Matthew (2018-09-05)

  A relatively small, but well-preserved, assemblage of faunal remains centered around an apparent refuse heap in the southwest quadrant of Eleon has been analyzed to determine the relative representation of domesticated and ...
• "To get out from the cage": transnational indonesian women's experiences of sexual surveillance 

  Lloyd, Alexandra Cecilia (2018-08-28)

  Despite a heterogenous array of sexual identities and histories, increasingly conservative ideals around women’s sexualities have amplified the social and political surveillance of women in contemporary Indonesia. At the ...
• Tourism in an Andean community: negotiating inequality, gender, and change 

  Guelke, Karoline (2018-07-18)

  Tourism is one of the largest industries worldwide. Alternatively described as beneficial development or a force of cultural destruction, its effects are complex and its benefits rarely distributed evenly. This dissertation ...
• Mapping the unmappable in indigenous digital cartographies 

  Becker, Amy (2018-05-01)

  This thesis draws on a community-engaged digital-mapping project with the Vancouver Island Coast Salish community of the Stz’uminus First Nation. In this paper, I discuss the ways in which conventional cartographic ...
• Cows in the Galápagos Islands: a study of cattle production at the Hacienda El Progreso 

  Riou-Green, Miranda (2018-04-30)

  This thesis explores the zooarchaeology of cattle management and production at the 19th-century Hacienda El Progreso, on San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos, Ecuador. Many cattle products were exported, including salted meat, ...
• Home and away: circular migration, mobile technology, and changing perceptions of home and community in deindustrial Cape Breton 

  McIntyre, Mark (2018-04-30)

  This thesis engages deindustrialization as a lived process and applies the concepts of precarity as they relate to communities navigating processes of deindustrialization. Through ethnographic interviews and participant ...
• Virtual reality and the clinic: an ethnographic study of the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (The CAREN Research Study) 

  Perry, Karen-Marie Elah (2018-04-26)

  At the Ottawa Hospital in Ontario, Canada, clinicians use full body immersion virtual reality to treat a variety of health conditions, including: traumatic brain injuries, post- traumatic stress disorder, acquired brain ...
• Lithic technologies of the Discovery Islands: materials, stone tool production, and communities of skilled practitioners 

  Abbott, Callum William Filan (2018-04-26)

  This thesis explores the findings of a diachronic analysis of three lithic assemblages from Quadra Island, British Columbia. From this, insights flow about the genealogies of technological practice and communities of skilled ...
• Long-term use of fish and shellfish resources revealed through vibracore sampling at EjTa-13, Hecate Island, Central Coast, BC 

  Duffield, Seonaid Eileen Shute (2018-01-03)

  This Master’s research program was undertaken as part of the Hakai Ancient Landscapes Archaeology Project in Heiltsuk and Wuikinuxv Territories on the Central Pacific Coast of British Columbia (BC), Canada. The project ...

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