Marianne Ignace
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, 丁香园AV
Biography
Dr. Ignace has a joint appointment with Indigenous Studies and Director, Indigenous Languages Centre. Dr. Ignace completed her Ph.D. dissertation on the politics of Haida symbols which was published as The Curtain Within: Haida Social and Symbolic Discourse. She has also published articles on Haida oratory and Potlatching.
For the past twenty years, Dr. Ignace has focused her research on the Secwepemc (Shuswap) people of the Plateau, where her interests are aboriginal land use and occupancy, ethnobotany, traditional ecological knowledge, ethnohistory, and the linguistic and anthropological analysis of Aboriginal language discourse. She has authored and co-authored papers in various journals and books on these topics, and has also carried out research in the field of Aboriginal language revitalization, some of which is published in the Handbook for Aboriginal Language Program Planning in B.C. In recent years, she has worked with First Nations communities and elders on various language revitalization projects, including Secwepemctsin, St鈥檃t鈥檌mcets, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Haida and Sm鈥檃lgyax.
Courses
Fall 2024
- INLG 130 A330 Practical Phonetics for Indigenous Languages
- INLG 300 A100 Advanced Grammar of an Indigenous Language
- LING 810 G110 Topics in Linguistics I
- LING 833 G110 Socio-cultural and Cognitive Aspects of an Indigenous Language
- LING 893 G110 Linguistics MA Project
- LING 894 G300 Qualifying Paper I
- LING 896 G110 Directed Research
- LING 898 G700 MA Thesis
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.