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Welcome to the memoir, Art, Anthropology, and Activism: Stories for another world. It examines, through stories about people and places,...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 5, 2021
- 39 min
Chapter 1: Dawson Days
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,...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 3, 2021
- 26 min
Chapter 2: Mexican Magic
On the plane to Mexico City from Montreal I happened to sit beside Lilia, a young woman who had been part of Mexico’s Olympic gymnastics...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 2, 2021
- 18 min
Chapter 3: The Eddy
I arrived in Dawson from Mexico days after the waters had receded from the Great Dawson Flood of 1979. During spring breakup, an ice jam...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Apr 1, 2021
- 21 min
Chapter 4: A Land Without Gods
I spent my “gap year” between a Master of Arts degree in Canadian Studies and an anthropology PhD program on beaches and in fishing boats...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 31, 2021
- 21 min
Chapter 5: The Study of Life
Doing a program of PhD studies in the social sciences is a strange and in many ways unnatural way to learn. It is based on traditions...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 30, 2021
- 26 min
Chapter 6: Cowardly Land Becomes Brave Again
Our move to Mexico, and my first real job as an anthropologist, began with Cajun blackened fish and Louisiana mud pie at an upscale...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 29, 2021
- 25 min
Chapter 7: Heart and Soul
In the morning hours of March 1, 1993, I was standing in Gregorio Hernandez’s maize field in southern Veracruz with a familiar who-is-who...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 28, 2021
- 30 min
Chapter 8: The Poverty of Food Policy
Anthropology is a myopic discipline in some respects, grounded in the details of geography and community practice, place and place...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 27, 2021
- 30 min
Chapter 9: Cultivating Peace
I worked at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) from 1995 to 2005. I considered myself, as many did, a “talent scout,”...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 26, 2021
- 22 min
Chapter 10: The Wealth of the Social Landscape
From the moment of my first visit to Bangladesh in the mid 1990s I was uplifted and strengthened by people involved in the Nayakrishi...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 25, 2021
- 28 min
Chapter 11: Fighting Eviction
I was a gymnast in high school. Short in stature and with compact muscles, my body type was well suited to the sport, encouraged by my...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 23, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 12: Skills in Means
Forthcoming: A remarkable journey of learning from and with my close friends and colleagues Jacques Chevalier and Michelle Bourassa,...
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DANIEL BUCKLES
- Mar 22, 2021
- 1 min
Chapter 13: Ten Ox Herding Pictures
Forthcoming: Advocacy for municipal action on the climate emergency, and the love of trees I share with my wife and life partner Debra...
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