Faculty
C. BILL, BA (UVic), MA (Trent ), PhD (Tulane)
E-mail: cbill@capilanou.ca
Local: 3672 Office: FR 545
M. BRACEWELL, BA (Hons.) (Queen's), MA (UBC)
E-mail: mbracewe@capilanou.ca
Local: 2498 Office: FR 411
G. CROWTHER, B.Sc. (Hons.) (London), M. Phil., PhD (Cambridge)
E-mail: gcrowthe@capilanou.ca
Tel: 604.990.7963 Office: FR 429
R. MUCKLE, BA, MA (SFU)
E-mail: bmuckle@capilanou.ca
Tel: 604.990.7853 Office: FR 431
FACULTY PROFILES
Maureen Bracewell
Maureen Bracewell teaches courses in Introductory Social Anthropology, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism. She has a BA in Ethnomusicology and her graduate work focused on the presentation of cultural identity among Andean musicians in Vancouver. Maureen’s research specialties and areas of interest include the relationship of music to culture, linguistic anthropology, migration and globalisation, and the rights of Indigenous peoples.
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Gillian Crowther
My anthropological training began at University College, London where I gained an undergraduate degree and developed an interest in art, material culture, representation, and museums. To pursue these interests further I studied at Cambridge University where I was able to combine Social Anthropology with Museum Studies in a Master’s program. This was when I began to formulate questions about Northwest Coast First Nations’ art, for which I could never find satisfactory answers. To find the answers I decided I need to ask First Nations’ artists themselves. To achieve this I decided to do fieldwork as part of a doctorate in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. I gained permission to work in the Haida community of Massett, and came to British Columbia for fifteen months as my fieldwork experience. My research considered the role of artists in their home community, the role of art in Haida culture, the politics of representation, the emergence of new traditions, and addressed the presence of anthropology in First Nations’ lives. Finally I found many answers to my original questions, and discovered many questions I had never even considered. I learned a great deal from the Haida, for which I am truly grateful.
After fieldwork I returned to Cambridge, completed my thesis, taught Social Anthropology, conducted collections research, and worked as a curator at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. I emigrated to British Columbia, and in 1997 I began teaching at Capilano. At Capilano University I teach courses in Introductory Social Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Intermediate Social Anthropology, Ethnic Relations, First Nations of British Columbia, Indigenous Peoples of North America, and coming in the Spring 2009 semester, The Anthropology of Food.
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Bob Muckle
Before coming to Capilano, Bob had already become established as an anthropologist and archaeologist, doing fieldwork in Africa and the Americas. He operated an archaeological company that focused on documenting First Nations heritage and assessing potential impacts of development projects on archaeological sites.
Bob’s primary interests continue to include the First Nations of British Columbia, past and present, as well as all things pertaining to Archaeology, including method, theory, prehistory, the material culture of recent times, and archaeology in popular culture. For the past several years he has directed the Seymour Valley Archaeology Project in North Vancouver.
Bob has had many articles and a few books published and writes a regular column for the journal Teaching Anthropology.
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