Email: wickwire@uvic.ca | Office: Clearihue B206

List of Publications

Dr. Wickwire completed a three year SSHRC grant ("James A. Teit and the Historical Challenge of Anthropology in the Boasian Era"). This grant, awarded in April 2005, is to support the production of an intellectual biography of Teit. Teit was an early British Columbia ethnographer and political activist who worked with Aboriginal peoples during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Books

(Co-authored with Harry Robinson) Living By Stories: A Journey of Landscape and Memory, Talonbooks, 2005.

(Co-authored with Michael M'Gonigle) Victory Harvest: The Diary of a Canadian in the British Women's Land Army, 1940-1944, McGill-Queen's, 1997.

Articles and Chapters

"'They Wanted Me to Help Them': James A. Teit and the Challenge of Ethnography in the Boasian Era," in Celia Haig-Brown, editor, Good Intentions: Eurocanadians Working for Justice in Aboriginal Contexts (UBC Press, forthcoming).

"Stories From the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive Historiography," Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 118, No. 470, Fall 2005: 453-474.

"Prophecy at Lytton," in Brian Swann (editor), Voices From Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (University of Nebraska Press, 2004), pp. 134-170.

"Beyond Boas? Re-assessing the Contribution of 'Informant' and 'Research Assistant, James A. Teit," in Laurel Kendall and Igor Krupnik, editors, Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz Boas and the North Pacific Expedition (Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution, 2003), pp. 105-122.

"Reconciling Issues of Time-Past and Time-Present in New Works of BC Ethnography: A Review Essay," in BC Studies (Summer/Autumn 2003) 138/139, 165-172.

" 'The Grizzly Gave Them The Song': James Teit and Franz Boas Document Twin Ritual in British Columbia, 1897-1920," American Indian Quarterly 25 (3), 2002, pp. 431-452.