STU anthropology alumnus blogs from fieldwork

STU Anthropology Alumni

Joshua Green, formerly an honours student in anthropology here at STU and now an MA student in anthropology at the University of Alberta, is currently conducting fieldwork for his MA thesis in the Faroe Islands. And he’s blogging about it! Check out his blog, “A Canadian in the Faroes,” at the following URL:

http://thefaroes.blogspot.com/

Josh did an honors thesis here at STU on concepts of tradition, authenticity, and cultural production at the Miramichi Folksong Festival (http://www.miramichifolksongfestival.com), based on fieldwork and archival research.

His current MA thesis examines similar issues pertaining to Faroese folk music, particularly the ways in which old Faroese folksongs are incorporated into contemporary Faroese popular music. An example is the Faroese Folk metal band Týr (http://www.tyr.fo).

Josh has been posting mostly photographs taken during his fieldwork. But check out some of his earliest posts to find two excellent research papers that he wrote about the Faroes, one of them presented at the 2011 Canadian Anthropology Society conference, hosted here at STU in May and co-organized by STU’s own Dr. Craig Proulx.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Josh was not the only scholar of folk metal at the recent conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, hosted at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Growing field!

First day(s) of class

Anthropology at STU

For most of us here at STU, yesterday and today were the first days of class for the Fall 2011 semester. We have three completely full sections of Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, and one completely full section of Introduction to Physical Anthropology. We are also teaching:

  • two Area Ethnography courses (South America and Aboriginal Experiences in Cities)
  • Archaeology of Early Societies – North/Central America
  • Human Biological Diversity
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Reading Ethnography
  • Applied Forensic Anthropology
  • and our three required upper-year courses: Readings in Anthropological Theory, Qualitative Research Methods, and Issues in Anthropology

So life is busy again. Any students here at STU interested in these courses can contact me, or the professor offering the course.

 

Welcome to STUAnthroBlog!

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Welcome to STUAnthroBlog, a blog created for, and about, anthropology at St. Thomas University. My name is Peter Toner, and I will be your host. I am a social anthropologist specializing in music and social identity in northeast Arnhem Land, Australia, and New Brunswick, Canada.

Ours is a small department of four full-time and three part-time faculty members, in a small liberal arts university in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Over the next few weeks I will endeavour to introduce them all to you.

My intentions in creating this blog are twofold: first, to provide a resource for students at St. Thomas University who are interested in anthropology; and second, to share with the blogosphere something of the research and teaching interests of STU anthropologists. Comments are welcome!

Now, please bear with me as I figure out how to use WordPress…

 

PGT