Andie Palmer: 2010

Andie Palmer is a linguistic and legal anthropologist conducting research on comparative legal systems and cross-cultural miscommunication. She was based at the Michael King Writers' Centre to write up a week of testimony from the Te Paparahi o Te Raki (Northlands) Claim before the Waitangi Tribunal, and to work on a book manuscript on Canadian and New Zealand articulations with Indigenous legal systems. As an author, Andie is best known for the book Maps of Experience: The Anchoring of Land to Story in Secwepemc Discourse (University of Toronto Press, 2005). She is Associate Professor and Associate Chair (Graduate Programs) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta, Canada.