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Charles R. Menzies is a Canadian anthropologist and full professor. He is a member of the Gitxaala Nation of northwestern British Columbia and an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.[1]
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Menzies was born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, as the eldest of three children of Shirley Marie Menzies (née Naud), an elementary school teacher, and Harry Basil Menzies, a commercial fisherman.[2][3]
Menzies grew up working on his family's commercial fishing boat. As a commercial fisherman[4] Menzies worked in the halibut longline, salmon seining, and herring seining fisheries.[2][5]
Menzies graduated from Prince Rupert Secondary School in 1980. He studied anthropology and sociology at Simon Fraser University. He has a MA from York University and a PhD from the City University of New York.[2][6][7]
Menzies is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Oceans and Fisheries[8] at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the North Coast of BC[9] and Brittany, France.[10] His British Columbia Coast research includes archaeological, ethnographic, and political economic projects.
- Menzies, Charles R. (2016) People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Menzies, Charles R. (2011) Red Flags and Lace Coiffes: Identity and Survival in a Breton Village. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Menzies, Charles R. (ed.) (2006) Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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