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Faculty
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Dr.
Patricia Kelly Spurles, Head
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Decisionmaking in breastfeeding; • Breastfeeding in Canada and Morocco; • Gender, ritual and space; • Henna practices; • Female and male life cycle rituals; • Gender and law in Muslim societies; • Muslim minorities in the West; and • gender and tourism. |
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Robert Adlam Associate Professor B.Sc. (Trent), M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto). |
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Fisheries Management and Policy in Atlantic Canada and the Athapaskan
Tahltan of northern British Columbia and Mi'kmaq of northern New
Brunswick on their riverine salmon fisheries. • Projects in the early history of Canadian Anthropology, such as, The ‘Northern Athapaskan Survey’ of Edward Sapir and James A. Teit, and of related interest, Joseph Howe’s ‘Indian Journal’. |
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| Dr. Grant Aylesworth Assistant Professor Ph.D. (Texas) M.A. (Tulane) B.A. (Toronto) |
• Archaeology • Mesoamerica • Ancient Maya • Director of the Mount Allison University Archaeological Field School in Belize |
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Marilyn Walker Professor B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (York) |
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Role of shamans in the practice of land and resource management
in northern India and Siberia; and • Comparative traditional medicine practices in Thailand, Siberia and Maritime Canada. |
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Professor
Moira McLaughlin
• Forensic Anthropology
BA (Toronto), MA (Tennessee)
Special Activities and Services
The members of the Anthropology Department play an active role in policy analysis in the Atlantic Region. This includes providing consulting services to Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and a project on settlement issues among recent women immigrants to New Brunswick. The latter project was funded by the Canada Metropolis Centre.