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Platforum Volume 9 PlatForum Journal of Graduate Students in Anthropology University of Victoria Vol 9/2008 PlatForum VOLUME 9/2008 PlatForum Journal of Graduate Students in Anthropology University of Victoria PUBLISHER University of Victoria Department of Anthropology Graduate Students EDITORS Goran Dokić Brendan Gray Soma W. Morse Adrian Sanders Trudi Smith Jenny Storey David Strongman COVER PHOTO Brendan Gray DESIGN Goran Dokić Soma W. Morse SPONSORS Office of the Vice President Research Faculty of Graduate Studies Faculty of Social Science Department of Anthropology Graduate Students’ Society MISSION PlatForum is a peer-reviewed journal organized by anthropology graduate students. We accept anthropologically relevant submissions from all university and college students of British Columbia, on a Call for Papers basis. PlatForum strives to be a participatory publication offering an opportunity for students to participate fully in the peer-review, evaluation and publishing process. The Editors seek scholarly contributions including articles, reviews, and field notes, covering diverse topics and issues from all four anthropology sub-disciplines: archaeology, cultural, physical and linguistic anthropology. Every attempt is made to publish PlatForum (ISSN 1492-4293) annually. General inquiries may be forwarded to: Managing Editor, PlatForum, University of Victoria, Department of Anthropology, Cornett Bldg, Room 214, P.O. Box 3050 Stn CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P5. Copyright 2005 by the University of Victoria Department of Anthropology Graduate Students. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form for by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher. Opinions expressed by individual authors are not necessarily those of PlatForum, the Department of Anthropology, or the University of Victoria. All authors retain the right to republish their material. The Editors assume responsibility for typographical errors. INTRODUCTION The Editorial Team 2007-2008 welcomes readers to PlatForum (formerly Cultural Reflections), the journal published by Graduate Students in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. With this issue we celebrate ten years of publication and our debut under the new name and editorial direction. The change of name from Cultural Reflections to PlatForum signifies a shift in the journal parallel with new directions in the communication of anthropological knowledge and ideas: Plat - to plait or braid Forum - a public meeting place for open discussion, a medium for open discussion or voicing ideas PlatForum - the braiding together of multiple perspectives while offering a public meeting place for discussion and debate PlatForum is a part of a growing movement of journals that are transforming the way in which academics and members of the general public access and debate anthropological ideas and knowledge. We recognize the need for an open anthropological discourse, hence the transition from being a purely print-based publication, to one that embraces the web as an invaluable tool for open debate. This move facilitates dissemination of published PlatForum articles to a broader audience, while providing a platform for anthropological discussions relating to journal material. Ultimately, the online journal will provide readers with a constant source of dynamic anthropology, communicating ideas through an open editorial process and frequent online publication of articles. The articles in this edition of PlatForum are varied in their scope and focus. Together they share a concern with being in the world and cover a wide range of applied and theoretical questions: modernity, representation, embodiment, health, exchange, landscape, and the ‘doing’ of anthropology in a globally interrelated political and economic environment. While journals are rarely read from cover to cover, the order of articles in PlatForum was created with these themes in mind. We invite readers to connect the specifics of each article to not just broader themes in anthropology but to their scholarly interests and passions. We hope that the inaugural edition of PlatForum stimulates discussion and exchange of ideas. The publication of the online version of this journal in the near future will further facilitate this dialogue and enrich our understanding of both the breadth and depth of anthropology at the University of Victoria and beyond. CONTRIBUTORS ALEX CAMERON graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Victoria in June of 2007. She hopes to go on in primatology and to conduct field work with lemurs in Madagascar. GORAN DOKIĆ holds a Bachelors degree and is a Masters candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria. His research interests include medical anthropology, psychology, and studies of postsocialism. His Masters thesis investigates the effects of the recent introduction of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the postsocialist discourse of Croatian psychiatry. RACHEL HOUMPHAN has recently completed her Bachelors degree with Honors in anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Alongside issues of globalization, nationalism and politics of state, her other academic interests include the study of gender, identity, structural violence, social suffering and power relations, human rights, and the application of anthropology to everyday, practical problems. CLAYTON MCCANN is co-founder of Nelson, BC’s the Mercury. His work has appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The New Quarterly, filling Station, The Danforth Review, the annual In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, The American Journal of Poetry, Grain and other places. He has performed on CBC Radio and at countless poetry readings throughout the Canadian West. He is currently harassing publishers with his manuscript, the mother-in-law who cried wolf and is hard at work on the Shit-Job Manifesto. Clayton is in his third year of anthropology at the University of Victoria with plans for a Masters degree in folklore studies. SOMA W. MORSE is a graduate student at the University of Victoria. Her research interests concern the relationships between people, place, and power using visually-based research in urban contexts. Soma is currently writing her thesis, which investigates how a sense of home is negotiated throughout the creation, organization and display of a community-based exhibit by a group of children and youth living in a marginalized urban neighbourhood of Bacolod City in the Central Philippines. LINDA OUTCALT holds a Bachelors degree in photographic arts from Ryerson University in Toronto and is presently taking courses in cultural anthropology at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests lie in political and visual anthropology with a particular focus on issues of power, propaganda and media, the enclave model of development, new forms of expanding global tourism, and the wide-ranging socioeconomic effects of neoliberalism. MORGAN RITCHIE is a graduate student of archaeology at Simon Fraser University and has been working with Chehalis for three years. His Masters thesis is an effort to demonstrate Chehalis’ cultural interactions in and with the Harrison River landscape. Morgan is interested in pursuing archaeology in this region both academically and professionally. ADRIAN SANDERS began graduate school at the University of Victoria in 2006 where he has been working on his Masters degree in anthropology researching Holocene archaeology in Northeast Haida Gwaii. Inspired by friendships and research experiences acquired in Chehalis territory during his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia, Adrian has managed to stay connected with these people and places, and plans on remaining involved in both capacities. KAZUKO SATO received a Bachelors degree in anthropology at the University of Victoria in 2005. She currently lives and works in Victoria, and is going to start her Masters Program at the University of Victoria in September 2008. Her research interests lie in the field of medical anthropology. More specifically, her focus is how biomedical technologies, including the concept of biomedicine itself, reflects and has impacts on societial values and people’s view of the world. KISHA SUPERNANT is a Doctoral candidate at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Michael Blake. She received her Bachelors degree from UBC and Masters degree from the University of Toronto. Kisha is currently researching patterns of warfare and identity formation in the late pre-contact period in the Lower Fraser Canyon of British Columbia. Her interests include Northwest Coast archaeology, the archaeology of warfare, practice theory, agency, identity, indigenous knowledge, and cultural landscapes. CLOE WHITTAKER is a recent graduate of the Anthropology Department at the University of Victoria, with a minor in environmental studies. Cloe’s interest in Indigenous pictographs was inspired by many childhood explorations of Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park in southern Alberta. Her research for this article fuelled an interest in intercultural power relations which she hopes to explore further in a Masters program. TABLE OF CONTENTS CLAYTON MCCANN postprandial paleontology.................................................11 RACHEL HOUMPHAN Museums, Postnational and Transcultural Identities in an Era of Cultural Dislocation.........................................13 GORAN DOKIĆ Embodiment of Trauma through Performative
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