Marianne Ignace
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, 大象传媒
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
Summer 2025
- INDG 332 A310 Indigenous Ethnobotany
- INDG 332 A330 Indigenous Ethnobotany
- INLG 130 A330 Practical Phonetics for Indigenous Languages
- INLG 300 A100 Advanced Grammar of an Indigenous Language
- INLG 335 A100 Topics in Indigenous Language I
- LING 893 G110 Linguistics MA Project
- LING 895 G100 Qualifying Paper II
- LING 898 G200 MA Thesis
- LING 899 G500 PhD Thesis
Fall 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.