Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles (U California Press, 2023) portrays women’s intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden…
I am not a scholar of Palestine. While I’ve spent time in the region and written about the occupation, this is not part of my scholarly ethnographic work.…
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Hi all,Migration, carbon offsetting, politics around UN jobs, deforestation, urbanization & impact of thinks tanks + World Bank reports are only some of the topics this week; and…
Can you run a marathon, drink coffee, eat fish, or fly on a plane while pregnant? Such questions are just the tip of the iceberg for how most…
Michael O. Johnston sits down with Maitrayee Deka, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex to discuss her new book Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy (Stanford…
The culture of fear instilled by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North have led to the silencing…
The Santa Fe New Mexican noted SAR’s “broader and more vigorous approach” to programming when SAR launched its…
In The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires, Kristin Surak investigates how selling citizenship to the uber-rich has transformed from an anomalous activity offered by a handful of microst…
For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do…
What can we learn from our handling of the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare for future crises? Why is it crucial to build a diagnostic infrastructure for future…
An anthropologist explains how a South African university used community-driven research to honor human remains acquired unethically. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has…
The life of a scholar is stressful. The best way to muddle through is with a stiff drink. Balancing teaching, research, and service more than merits a cocktail…
In 2013, as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country, Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy for all Syrian refugees. Why…
Cover of the North County Times, 9/12/01. Photo: Ryan Anderson. There are a few different things that brought me to anthropology. One of them was 9/11. More specifically,…
Each year since 2005 the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) and the AAA have sponsored the Careers Expo at the AAA Annual Meeting. The Expo…
SAR field trip participants at Canyon de Chelly. About eighteen minutes outside of…
Does the transition from childhood to adulthood have to be so difficult? This question sent famed anthropologist Margaret Mead to American Samoa in 1925—and ignited decades of controversy.…
What are ‘real’ risks in life? What makes us afraid of the future and how do we perceive uncertainties? These cultural and philosophical questions came to my mind…
On a freezing February morning, I pulled my rental car into the small parking lot behind a sprawling Minnesota church. I had flown halfway across the country to…
Tiya Miles, 2007 An interview of Tiya Miles (History, Harvard), an SAR resident scholar in 2007-2008, appeared in the New York Times Book Review’s “By the Book”…
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/personal-but-not-private-9780190076191 Interview by Elias Alexander Elias Alexander: In the preface of your work, you give us readers a wonderful ins…
