Congratulations Dr. Guillaume Dandudand for winning the best dissertation award

Congratulations Dr. Guillaume Dandudand for winning the best dissertation award

Anthropology, Islam & Muslim Societies (ANTH 3570)

Islam is a faith that is practised today by over a billion people whose traditions and civilisations are rich and diverse. So how do we study Islam and Muslims? And what do Muslims have to say about their own traditions and life-worlds? This 6-credit seminar course introduces students to the Islamic tradition, past and present. […]

Congratulations to our Anthropology Students, Undergraduate, IBA, Masters &PhD - Class of 2019

Masters Degree Jordan Hodgins Lesley Vesley Doctoral Degree Guillaume Dandurand Nicole McFadyen

Passing of Prof. Marilyn Silverman

Dr. Marilyn Silverman: April 30, 1945 – June 18, 2019 Our former colleague, Marilyn Silverman, passed away yesterday, Tuesday 18th June 2019, after a long, arduous, and courageous struggle with cancer. She was a longstanding member of the Department of Anthropology, fundamental in shaping it to its present position as one of the pre-eminent departments […]

ANTH 4130 The Professional Anthropologist Work-Study Placement Info Session on May 7, 2019 10 AM-12 PM at Vari Hall 2054

ANTH 4130 The Professional Anthropologist Work-Study Placement Info Session on May 7, 2019 10 AM-12 PM at Vari Hall 2054 contact chranth@yorku.ca Poster (PDF)

Power and Violence: The Making of Modernity ANTH3370 3.0

Instructor: Prof. Dan Yon Time: 11:30am-2:30pm Films Used Include: The Bible and the Gun, Battle of Algiers, Black Skin White Mask, Black Rain, War and Peace, Anybody’s Son Will Do Tops Include: Colonial violence Psychological violence Epistemic violence State violence Resistance violence Racial/ethnic/religious violence War and Peace The violence of ‘science’ Art and violence The violence […]

To humanize Muslims, let’s start in the classroom by Zulfikar Hirji, Contributed to The Globe and Mail

Zulfikar Hirji is an associate professor at York University and co-author of Islam: An Illustrated Journey. A number of years ago, my son came home from school excited to tell me that he was studying the medieval era. “That’s great," I said. "Where?” Looking confused, he turned to me and said, “You know, medieval times, […]

Mining Memory - A film by Daniel Yon

Mining Memory is a visual meditation on the journeys, both actual and metaphorical, of 100 men who departed the Island of St Helena bound for employment in Concordia, Namaqualand, in the Northern Cape in 1907. It gathers the memory of these men, through conversations with their descendants as it also dwells on the remains of copper […]

Interior Frontiers: Concept-Work on Rough Ground

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. She is the author and editor of numerous books including Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002, 2010) and Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination (2013). Her most […]

Jaipur Literature Festival: ‘Islam in India influenced by Sufism, Bhakti movement’

Diverse traditions prevented inroads of Wahabism: experts The puritanical Islamic doctrine of Wahhabism was incapable of taking roots in India because of diverse traditions in the Muslim community influenced by the country's composite culture, experts on Muslim culture said on Sunday. The panel of experts analysed multiple interpretative traditions among Muslims in India and elsewhere […]