VIUAnthropology

06/06/2025

Sharing our knowledge with the public is a major career skill. Want to learn more? Take ANTH 380: Museum Anthropology in the Fall 2025 semester!

08/02/2024

We have a one-year teaching position for a Socio-Cultural Anthropologist at Vancouver Island University. Please share this information with anyone who might be interested, and find details at:

VIU's Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for a temporary instructor to teach in the Anthropology Department. We seek an experienced instructor to teach one or more undergraduate course(s). Instruction includes preparation and delivery of lectures, assessment and evaluation of students,....

04/23/2024

A few tickets left for the ancient beer tasting event! This year's new brew is Aksum Babe! inspired by the ancient brewers of the Aksumite Empire (modern Ethiopia) and it's gluten free (sorghum and millet). Come support VIU Anthropology research and student presentations in this awesome event.

04/10/2024

Tickets are live for the 2024 Raise Your Glass to the Past archaeology of beer event! Friendly heads up that the tickets are going fast...
Hope to see you there!

03/22/2024

Our monthly Tuesday evening GSAR training for March included a special presentation by David Hopwood, an Anthropology Professor at Vancouver Island University. The session — "The Identification and Interpretation of Human Skeletal Remains: Implications for Search and Rescue" — covered a number of topics extremely relevant for SAR members, including:
* How to recognize human bone
* How to differentiate human bone from other animal bone
* What can be learned from bones
* Hands on experience with real human bone and animal bone

11/16/2023

It's back! Anthropology majors, sign up while there is still space!

10/26/2023

Interested in the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead? There is a free symposium from the Getty that you can watch via Zoom. Here is the link for anyone interested: https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3977.html?fbclid=IwAR16KQhPaddY2_sA0GgJNNbtNdJqvCY6t6RvmkIZmHMGU1FGS9aa0b3-G_w

10/04/2023

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09/19/2023

07/22/2023

Archaeological or Biological Anthropologists on Vancouver Island, please share. We have two sessional openings (1 course each) to teach ANTH 111: Introduction to Archaeology and Biological Anthropology. Please see link below for details.

VIU's Faculty of Social Sciences invites applications for a temporary instructor to teach in the Anthropology Department. We seek an experienced instructor to teach one or more undergraduate course. Instruction includes preparation and delivery of lectures, assessment and evaluation of students, fac...

07/20/2023

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