by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 26, 2016 | Blog
Across the Pond: On Different Projects and Meaningful Ideas A Blog Post for Anth 395 Blog posts in general are an important source of knowledge in our field. They allow for people, not just academics, to have access to the work that is going on in today’s research....
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 26, 2016 | Blog
It is hard to believe that our last week in the field has arrived. What an amazing, rich, and wonderful educational experience we are having. It will be difficult to say goodbye to our fellow classmates, all of the volunteers, our professor, and our teaching...
by Emily Badger | May 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Jewish Cemetery. Image by: Emily Badger Our class is coming up to close and there are projects to be done! I told myself that I would return to the cemetery over the long weekend, but my cousin came down to surprise me. This pushed my schedule back so I spent my...
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...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 14, 2016 | Blog
Well, today (Thursday) was my first official day in the field for Anth 395, and my first visit to the cemetery. There’s something incredibly surreal about being able to connect a grave to the people and the stories that have appeared in my textbooks since middle...
by Taylor | May 12, 2016 | Blog
Tuesday, in our first official class in the Anthropology 395: Heritage Archaeology course we covered a lot more than I expected and perhaps was prepared for. We not only covered in lecture the various aspects of the course, such as monument measurement and mapping,...
