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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…
Katherine Mason, “The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health” (NYU Press, 2023)
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…
Maitrayee Deka, “Traders and Tinkers: Bazaars in the Global Economy” (Stanford UP, 2023)
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…
Framing Gaza: Call for contributions
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…
Inaugural Humanities Festival Raises a New Profile for SAR
The Santa Fe New Mexican noted SAR’s “broader and more vigorous approach” to programming when SAR launched its…
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires – review
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…
Sébastien Tutenges, “Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry” (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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…
Navigating Uncertainty: Lessons from the Frontlines of COVID-19 Testing
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…
Restoring Faces and Dignity to Skeletal Remains
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…
Philipp Stelzel, “The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics” (Indiana UP, 2023)
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…
Katherine Jensen, “The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil” (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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…
Dehumanization, 9/11, and anthropology
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,…
NAPA/AAA CAREERS EXPOSITION
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…
Saluting Kindness in the World
SAR field trip participants at Canyon de Chelly. About eighteen minutes outside of…
Coming of Age … Today
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.…
Risks, Raisin Buns and Parenting
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…
Funeral for an Embryo
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…
SAR Alumna Tiya Miles Interviewed for the NY Times Book Review
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”…
Stefanie Duguay discusses her book, Personal but not Private
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…
Don Miller
On Time. My teacher and friend Don Miller passed away last month. We had published his book “Time and Time Again” in 2022. His memorial is on the…
Margaret Hillenbrand, “On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China” (Columbia UP, 2023)
Margaret Hillenbrand’s On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China (Columbia UP, 2023) examines the negative cultural forms that have emerged in response to China’s exclusionary contemporary socioeconomic system. Hillenbrand considers…