World on the Edge Vancouver, Bc 2006
March 28-April 2 * Hyatt Regency Hotel
The 65th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology will convene in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, March 28-April 2,2006. The meeting theme-"World on the Edge" -is particularly appropriate, given Vancouver's geographic location and cultural diversity. The city is at the edge of North America and serves as the dominant gateway to the Pan-Pacific Region. As such, it provides a real as well as a metaphorical platform for assessing the central forces that are shaping our world-globalization, multiculturalism, boundaries and borderlands, population migration, and development.
Vancouver has served as a crossroads for …
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Publication information:
Article title: World on the Edge Vancouver, Bc 2006.
Contributors: Not available.
Journal title: Human Organization.
Volume: 64.
Issue: 3
Publication date: Fall 2005.
Page number: 302.
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