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The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences announced today the finalists for the 2016 Canada Prizes. The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP).
We are pleased to announce that three of our books were selected as finalists.
Congratulations to the following MQUP authors for this wonderful achievement: Brian Young, Nancy Turner and Caroline Durand.
By Brian Young
Finalist: Canada Prize in the Humanities
An analysis of two elite families in the shaping of English and French Quebec.
By Nancy J. Turner
Finalist: Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
How knowledge of plants and environments has been applied and shared over centuries and millennia by Indigenous peoples.
Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples’ knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, she integrates her research into a two-volume ethnobotanical tour-de-force. Read more…
By Caroline Durand
Finalist: Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
A study of foodways and food advice in a modernizing Quebec.
Nutrition advice is ubiquitous. So many experts give their opinion on which foods to favour and which to avoid that the question of diet has now become a matter of obsession. While alerting the public to the dangers of obesity, diabetes, and other potential issues that await undisciplined eaters, health professionals and government agencies also identify those responsible for these modern epidemics: it is often individuals – and usually mothers – who make poor choices. Read more…
A special mention and congratulations to author Linda Kay and les Presses de l’Université de Montréal for being selected as a finalist in the category of Prix du Canada en sciences sociales, for their book Elles étaient seize (translation from MQUP’s The Sweet Sixteen).
The four winners of the 2016 Canada Prizes will be announced on April 11 and the prizes, each valued at $2,500, will be presented at an awards ceremony to be held during the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Calgary.
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