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Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frances Slaney is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research areas include Tarahumara ethnography, anthropology of art, material culture, anthropology of museums, ritual, landscape aesthetics, the history of anthropology and anthropological theory. She began her studies in anthropology at the University of British Columbia (BA), and completed them at Universit\u00e9 Laval (MA, PhD). As a graduate student, she participated in seminars at the Centre National de Recherche (CNRS) in Paris, and at the Summer Institute for Structuralist and Semiotic Studies in Toronto and in Bloomington, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frances\u2019 PhD fieldwork in Mexico was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in New York. Following fieldwork in the Sierra Tarahumara of northwestern Mexico, she wrote an analysis of duplicated ritual practices among Tarahumaras (Rar\u00e1mure Pag\u00f3tame) as a reflection on Spanish colonialism. She also critically re-evaluated the Tarahumara texts written by French surrealist Antonin Artaud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With support from SSHRC post-doctoral and standard research grants, Frances has done archival research in France, England and Canada. She is particularly interested in the career of C. Marius Barbeau at Ottawa\u2019s Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of Civilization) and his collaborations with modern Canadian artists, including landscape painters from the Group of Seven. She is currently completing a book that explores Barbeau\u2019s European education under the direction of R.R. Marett at Oxford and Marcel Mauss in Paris (1907-1910) with particular attention to the question of how this education influenced his early 20th C. museum practices and hopes for a Canadian (proto-) multi-cultural aesthetics and art history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frances came to Carleton in 2005 from the University of Regina where she taught anthropology from 1996 to 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-academic publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015 Slaney, F. \u201cA Brief History of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, From its 19th century origins to its recent demise\u201d Bytown Pamphlet Series,<\/em> No. 94, Ottawa History Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015 Slaney, F. \u201cFaber-Sociality\u2019 in Urban Sheepdog\/Human Relations: The materiality of Inter-Species Dwelling and Crafting\u201d (8 pp). (Catalogue essay for a visual arts Installation at RIA (Research In Art) exhibition, Ottawa: Being Human<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014 Slaney, F. Slaney, F. “Harper\u2019s history museum betrays First Nations” CAUT Bulletin<\/em>, Comment\/Opinions, vol. 61 No. 2, February. (Reprinted in Culture (The Canadian <\/em>Anthropological Society Newsletter)<\/em>, spring\/printemps, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 7-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013 Slaney, F. \u201cA military museum coup\u201d op-ed, Ottawa Citizen, January 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected academic publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013 Slaney, F. “Cosiendo ropa en Panalachi: el mundo florido de las mujeres Tarahumaras” in Arturo Guti\u00e9rrez del \u00c1ngel (ed.) Hilando al Norte\u00d1 Nudos, Redes, Vestidos, Textiles. San Luis Potos\u00ed: El Colegio de San Luis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010 Slaney, F. “Vitalism in Canada’s Anthropology and Art: Barbeau’s Early Twentieth-Century connection to Modernist Painters, Especially Emily Carr” The Journal of canadian Art History XXXI: 62-96.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009 Slaney, F. \u201cMat\u00e9ria e Mem\u00f3ria no Museu Nacional do Canad\u00e1,\u201d Ant\u00f3nio Madeiros, trans., in Ant\u00f3nio Medeiros and Manuel Jo\u0101o Ramos eds. Mem\u00f3ria e Artif\u00edcio: Mem\u00f3ria do Patrim\u00f3nio II. Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa:Lisbon, pp. 103-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008 Slaney, F. \u201cArtistic Labour and the Embodiment of Culture: Barbeau\u2019s Canadian anthropology of art as a vision from Oxford and Paris\u201d Chapter 2 in L. Jessup, A. Nurse and G. Smith, eds. Around and About Marius Barbeau: Writings on the Politics of Twentieth-Century Canadian Culture. Ottawa: Museum of Civilization Press, Mercury Series, pp. 27-63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007 Slaney, F. \u201cMarius Barbo i kanadskie khudozhniki-peizazhisty\u201d[\u201cMarius Barbeau and Canadian Landscape Painters: At the Crossroads of Ethnology and Art\u201d] Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie [Ethnographic Review] November, no. 6, Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 58-79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 Slaney, Frances. \u201cThe Role of Landscape Painters in Marius Barbeau\u2019s Ethnology: Working For A Canadian Sense of Place(s)\u201d in Richard Handler (ed.) Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions: Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology. History of Anthropology, Vol.9. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 81-122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997 Slaney, Frances. \u201cDouble Baptism: Personhood and Ethnicity in the Sierra Tarahumara of Mexico.\u201d Featured article: issues in debate. American Ethnologist. 24:2, pp. 279-301.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994 Slaney, Frances. \u201cUn paysage enti\u00e8rement moderne: Antonin Artaud dans la Sierra Tarahumara.\u201d Anthropologie et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s. 18:1, pp.133-155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1989 Slaney, Frances. \u201cPsychoanalysis and Cycles of \u2018Subversion\u2019 in Modern Art and Anthropology.\u201d Dialectical Anthropology. 14, pp. 213-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate courses taught:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personhood (ANTH 4780)
\nMesoamerican Ethnography (ANTH 2650)
\nContemporary Theory in Anthropology (ANTH 3006)
\nHistory of Anthropological Theory (ANTH 2005, now ANTH 3007)
\nMaterial Culture and Museums (ANTH 3580)
\nAnthropology of Symbols (ANTH 3500)
\nStudies in Art, Culture and Society (ANTH\/SOCI 3570)
\nContemporary Material Culture & Embodiment in Theory & Ethnography (ANTH 4007)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate courses taught:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personhood Revisited: From salvage ethnography to post-humanism (ANTH 5708)
\nTheories and Methods I (ANTH 5401)
\nTheories of Visual and Material Culture (ANTH 5807\/CLMD 6103) co-taught with Dr. Ruth Phillips
\nSemiotics of Material Culture and Embodiment (ANTH 5807)
\nSpecial Topics in Symbolism and Culture (ANTH 5807)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate directed readings given:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embodiment & the Anthropology of Dance: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology (ANTH 6900)
\nMaterial Culture, Embodiment and Death (ANTH 5900)
\nMartial Arts, Personhood and Embodiment (ANTH 5900)
\nPersonhood, Material Culture and Embodiment (ANTH 5900)
\nMaterial Culture and Consumption (CDNS 5901)
\nAnthropology of the Body and Phenomenology (ANTH 6900)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate supervisions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Schissel \u2013 M.A. 2008. (With Distinction). \u201cMuai Thai and the embodiment of fighting forms in a rural, northeast Thai household\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leanne Davis \u2013 M.A. 2009. \u201cNegotiating social space through fair trade coffee consumption\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charisma Thomson \u2013 M.A. 2010. \u201cRoadside Memorials in rural North America: symbolic Performance of Double Burial\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Fonseca \u2013 M.A. 2010. (With distinction). \u201c’It’s not just about money’: An Ethnography of Rebusque Performances and Life-Stories on Public Transportation buses in Downtown Bogot\u00e1, Colombia”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa Savastano. “Remembering Internment: an oral history of Montreal Italians during World War II\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leanne Davis. “Re-emergence of the ‘Good Death’: Volunteerism, Relatedness and Local Knowledge in Contemporary Hospice Care and Patient Households.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Alfaro. “Embodied Transnationalism: Bharata natyam as global practice.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6522,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Frances","cu_people_last_name":"Slaney","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[40],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-514","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-adjunct-research-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Adjunct Research Professor","cu_people_degree":"PhD (Laval)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"frances.slaney@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19747,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/514\/revisions\/19747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}