Painting: Detail from "Temagami Moon," 2018. Preface People, plot and perspectives on art, anthropology and activism are combined in this...

The summer of 1973, when I was seventeen, I hitch-hiked from Ottawa to Long Beach on Vancouver Island and back, by way of Dawson City,...

A few months after arriving in Mexico from the Yukon I was assigned to an archaeological excavation as an illustrator at the ancient...

Salmon are one of the natural world’s great wonders. Photo: An eddy along the rocky shore of the Yukon River. Salmon are one of the...

For several months in early 1987 it seemed as though my life was coming to an end, at age 32. Image: Drawing of the Nahua Maize God,...

Doing a program of PhD studies in the social sciences is a strange and in many ways unnatural way to learn. Photo: Seed maize is stored...

My first real job as an anthropologist began with Cajun blackened fish and Louisiana mud pie at a restaurant in downtown Manhattan....

Photo: Lorenzo Arteaga and Hugo Perales (left) discuss mucuna residues with farmers, Bernardo and Martin, in Soteapan, Veracruz. The...

Salt Spring Island sits off the west coast of British Colombia among a smattering of other small islands between the City of Vancouver...

“The sun slowly evaporated the dew off the tobacco leaves. The feeler of the picking machine bounced and groped its way between the...

Photo: Speculators marketing country lifestyles to wealthy patrons from Mumbai drive eviction of the poor from their land. Forthcoming:...

Forthcoming: Highlights from my work at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and afterwards as a consultant working on my...

Forthcoming: A remarkable journey of learning from and with my close friends and colleagues Jacques Chevalier and Michelle Bourassa,...

Forthcoming: Advocacy for municipal action on the climate emergency, and the love of trees I share with my wife and life partner Debra...