18 Facts About Michael Asch

Michael I Asch was born on April 9,1943 and is an anthropologist in Canada.

Michael Asch became Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta and works as a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria.

Michael Asch has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2002 as a part of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Michael Asch has been a part of several research projects and non-profit initiatives such as Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Michael Asch was born on April 9,1943, in New York City, New York.

Michael Asch is the son of Moses Asch, the founder of Folkway Records, and the grandson of Sholem Asch, a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and Yiddish language essayist.

Michael Asch was an only child and does not have any siblings.

Michael Asch moved to Victoria, British Columbia, in the late 1990s, where he now works as a Professor at the University of Victoria.

Michael Asch was honoured as a Founding Fellow at CASCA 2013 at the University of Victoria.

Michael Asch's thought was that it was not appropriate to compare the share of overall food value produced through traditional methods between rural and urban communities, as urban centers would have a larger non-Indigenous population who were unlikely to get their food through methods such as hunting, trapping, or fishing.

Michael Asch further argued that the use of modern technology, such as guns or snowmobiles, by the Indigenous peoples of the region was not a sign of acculturation, as adopting new technology does not mean they are adopting new values.

Michael Asch's testimony included statements about the importance of hunting and fishing as Indigenous cultural practices.

Michael Asch provided further context to the testimonies of the Esk'etemc First Nation members by describing them in terms of their relationship to their cultural framework.

Michael Asch convinced his father, Moses Michael Asch, to donate the entirety of his Folkways Records collection shortly before his death in 1986.

Part of the collection went to the University of Alberta, where Michael Asch was currently serving as the Anthropology Department chair.

Michael Asch served on the board of the FolkwaysAlive initiative, founded in 2004 at the University of Alberta by Professors Regula Qureshi and Michael Frishkopf, in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, during this time.

Michael Asch continues to hold a position as an advisory board member for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, where he has hosted a number of radio shows and podcasts.

Michael Asch did a presentation on Treaty Relations as a Method of Resolving IP Issues Project at the iPinCH Fall Gathering in 2014.