Guidelines for Collaboration: Museums and Communities Seeking Equitable Change
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Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
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The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
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SAR Remembers Ronald N. Dubin
The Dubin Studio under construction in 1997 (left) and after its completion (right). …
The Clay Always Has Something to Say: 2021 Native Artist Fellow Brandon Adriano Ortiz-Concha
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, 2020–2021 SAR Anne Ray Intern Walking toward the crowd, I felt a burn of energy in the air. People w…
SAR Field Trips: A Wonderful Combination
Guest post by Jean and John Berghoff. New to membership in 2021 and seeking opportunities to better understand the Native American h…
Learning from Desert Dwellers: Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez on Life in a Desert Nation
Drought is now a way of life. As a result, argue Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez in their recent Washington Post article, people throughou…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Rashmi Sadana
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Scholar, Mentor, Trailblazer: Linda Cordell’s Influence on Contemporary Archaeology
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020–2021 Women in archaeology have come a long way. They now comprise half of al…
Resident Scholar Profile: 2021–2022 Weatherhead Fellow Benjamin Junge
Fieldwork is much more than just collecting data. —Ben Junge “Brazil has been a p…
IARC Collections Highlight: Diné History and Adaptation
Guest post by Sháńdíín Brown, 2020–2021 Anne Ray intern The Diné are resilient people and know how to adapt to hardship. Before Euro…
SAR Scholar Alumni in the National Press
When selecting resident scholars from the many who apply, SAR places special emphasis on applicants’ demonstrated ability to write in…
“A new phase in the old struggle”: Trumpism and the Fight for Latinx Citizenship
My father tells a story about growing up in the hill country of Texas in the forties and fifties. The train station downtown had a drinking…
Bolo Tie Highlights: An IARC Collection Reflection
Duane Maktima. Bolo tie + buckle, 1974, detail. Silver, turquoise, gold-lip mother-of-pearl, ironwood, coral, leather. SAR.1989-7-177AB. Ph…
Kapa-Making as a Way of Being: A Conversation with Lehuauakea
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters), handmade plant dyes, earth pigments, and printed ‘ohe kāpala (bamboo stamps) on hand-sti…
Locating Our Hope: Resilience and Compassion in the Indigenous Southwest
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Robert Caldwell
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Archaeology and Place at Chaco Canyon
Photograph of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, courtesy of Robert Adams. Archaeology and Place Archaeologists have been paying attent…
SAR Press Top Reads: Place, Environment, and Change
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Senses of Place
In 1996 SAR Press published Senses of Place, an edited volume that originated as an SAR Advanced Seminar co-chaired by Steven Feld and Keit…
Designs and Anthropologies: Frictions and Affinities
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Members Matter: Russ and Diane Kyncl
Guest post by SAR members Russ and Diane Kyncl. This is our fifty-year …
Spider Woman’s Knowledge and the Survival of Diné Textile Arts
Detail of weaving by Venancio Aragon (Diné), SAR’s 2020 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow. Guest post by Abra Wenzel. &…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Alina Méndez
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…