vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology

The graduate student journal of the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.

Announcements

 

In production ...

 
vis-à-vis is now hard at work on our next issue, which will be on the theme of traces.

In what ways does the anthropological project attempt to reveal hidden patterns of social life through the traces that have been left behind? What insight into our collective histories do these traces provide and how do we uncover them in the first place?


We have a number of excellent papers that speak to this theme from a variety of anthropological perspectives.

Watch this space for Traces, due in September, 2012.
 
Posted: 2011-11-11 More...
 

Announcing Volume 11, Issue 1

 
The first issue of Volume 11 is now online! It features 7 articles by authors specialising in the sociocultural, medical, and biological fields of anthropology, dealing with topics as diverse as the anthropology of disability and ethical-eating movement.

We have high hopes of publishing another issue in the Winter 2012 term. Keep an eye on this space for updates!
 
Posted: 2011-09-26
 

Special Issue: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Graduate Students Lithic Symposium

 
A new issue of vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology (Vol 10, No 2, 2010) is now available for online viewing. This special issue is dedicated to publishing research from the 2010 event "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Graduate Students Lithic Symposium". This symposium was held at the University of Toronto from February 24-25 2010 and served as a venue for graduate students from across North America to share current research methodologies with their peers interested in lithic technology studies. The goal of the symposium was to facilitate scientific exchange, generate feedback, questions, and discussions that would help to advance innovative lithic research.

Included in this issue are an introduction from the organizers summarizing the event, seven papers presented at the symposium, and the complete list of abstracts.

Special thanks to Jayne Wilkins and Danielle Macdonald, who organized the symposium and served as guest editors for this issue.
 
Posted: 2010-07-21
 

New Issue of vis-à-vis now online!

 
Our first issue of 2010 is now available.

The new issue contains 7 research articles written by students at Trent University, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Toronto, as well as a book review of James Ferguson's Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order.

Click "More..." to see short descriptions of our new research articles.
 
Posted: 2010-02-03 More...
 

Revised Peer-Reviewer Policy

 
vis-à-vis has reformatted the submission requirements for peer-reviewers. This policy will take effect in January 2010.  
Posted: 2009-11-03 More...
 
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Vol 11, No 1 (2011)

Table of Contents

From the Editors PDF
 

Research Articles

Understanding the local food phenomenon: academic discourse, analytical concepts, and an investigation of local food initiatives PDF Appendix
Katreena E Baker
The Multiple Moral Economies of Capitalism: Imagining Local Food in Socioeconomically Marginal Contexts PDF
Dylan Gordon
Construing top-down as bottom-up: The governmental co-option of peacebuilding 'from below' PDF
Stephen Campbell
"A Woman is Stronger than our State”: Performing Sovereignty on the Margins of the State PDF
Vivian Solana
Pumping up the Pomp: An Exploration of Femininity and Female Bodybuilding PDF
Amy Scott
Cultural Perceptions of Maternal Illness among Khmer Women in Krong Kep, Cambodia PDF
Stephanie Rose Montesanti
Towards Engagement: Exploring the Prospects for an Integrated Anthropology of Disability PDF
Heather Battles