Featured Video of the Day: Canada Prizes 2015 – Interview with Winner Michael Asch

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The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). The winning books make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.

Michael Asch is a professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria and a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta. In 2001, his contributions to the field of applied anthropology were honoured by Canadian Anthropology Society with the Weaver-Tremblay award. He has served as President of the Canadian Anthropological Society, Senior Research Associate for Anthropology on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and as Director of the Dene/Metis Mapping Project. He is currently a member of the board of advisors of Smithsonian Folkways Records. He is the author of many books, including Home and Native Land, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada and, most recently, On Being Here to Stay.

Winning book: On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (University of Toronto Press)

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Les Prix du Canada sont attribués chaque année aux meilleurs livres savants en sciences humaines et sociales ayant bénéficié du soutien financier du Prix d’auteurs pour l’édition savante (PAES). Les ouvrages des lauréats apportent une contribution exceptionnelle à la recherche, sont rédigés de façon intéressante et enrichissent la vie sociale, culturelle et intellectuelle du Canada.

Michael Asch est professeur d’anthropologie à la University of Victoria et professeur émérite à la University of Alberta. En 2001, la Société canadienne d’anthropologie a honoré ses contributions dans le domaine de l’anthropologie appliquée en lui décernant le prix Weaver-Tremblay. M. Asch a occupé les fonctions de président de la Société canadienne d’anthropologie, d’associé de recherche principal de la Commission royale sur les peuples autochtones et de directeur du projet de cartographie Dénés/Métis. Il est actuellement membre du conseil consultatif de Smithsonian – Folkways Records. Il est l’auteur de nombreux livres, y compris Home and Native Land, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights in Canada et, plus récemment, On Being Here to Stay.

Livre primé: On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (University of Toronto Press)

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