4/24/19

In our Spring 2019 issue, our book editor Jennifer Erickson has compiled a handful of reviews inspired by #CiteBlackWomen. We hope these will help you in the ongoing endeavour to decolonize the discipline. For this Coming to Terms our managing editor picks up on this theme asking whether we should be re-introduced to kyriarchy to move beyond what he recognizes as a resurgence of white feminism. In one of our Snapshots for this issue, Ariana Hernandez-Reguant provides a reflection of the gaze on the black subject as she attempts to translate her fieldwork into art.

In Fall 2019, stay tuned for a special Rural North America Almanac being compiled by guest editors Alex Blanchette and Marcel LaFlemme. Do not worry if you are wanting to submit something, we are still accepting submissions for our Fall 2020 issue (we have another special issue coming next Spring)!

10/26/18

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as JANA’s new managing editor. I’ve spent the last ten years in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario, Canada.  After completing my Honor’s Specialization in 2013, I started my doctoral studies under the guidance of Dr. Regna Darnell distinguished scholar known for her work on the history of anthropology in North America, linguistic fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta, amongst an exhaustive list of other contributions. One of the few people who are not afraid to look reality in the face and fight for what is right, from her I learnt to value narrative and ethnography as praxis.  These were crucial for my exploratory research into the lives of those local men who sell sex and the heretofore unheard stories of their experiences of gendered structural violence.

As North America, with the rest of the world, nears the end of the second decade of the century, anthropology is just as important as ever to help us understand each other but also ourselves.  I look forward to what insights JANA will bring.

All the best,

Nathan Dawthorne, Ph.D.,
Managing Editor, Journal for the Anthropology of North America

1/2/18
Some changes are coming:

1. Journal Relaunch: In the coming months, North American Dialogue will be relaunching as the Journal for the Anthropology of North America. The commitment to dialogue will cont