by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 25, 2016 | Blog
I can’t believe the course is almost over for another year! It feels like we just got started. We’ve made good progress so far, in spite of needing to redo some work from last year (a few of last year’s students forgot to submit their monument...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 23, 2016 | Blog
On Thursday, in Anthropology 395 we learned about cleaning gravestones with help from Angela Dyck, a recent graduate from UVic. Working in Emanu-El cemetery has created a bond between my class and the people buried here. It may seem strange as some people were born...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 20, 2016 | Blog
Today marked the end of our second week doing fieldwork as a class in this beautiful cemetery. I can’t believe how quickly time is flying! So far, this has been one of the most interesting and hands on courses I have ever taken in my three years at Uvic. It is both...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 18, 2016 | Blog
Transition So far our focus at the Jewish cemetery has been about the individuals represented by the memorials, their spatial relationship to the landscape and to each other as well as the dimensions of each of the memorial features. As we move into the second week...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 16, 2016 | Blog
There is nothing like starting a new project when the weather is nice. That being said, a cemetery is not the usual place one starts out their summer, but me and ten others have chosen to do so and I could not be more excited. Is is invigorating to know that we are...
