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…
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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…
Summer anthropologies #2: Leslie White goes to a baseball game (Part 3)
Oracle Park, last game of the season, 2023. In the last post of this installment of the summer anthropologies series, I ended with the point that major league…
Links & Contents I Liked 495
Hi all,This week’s #globaldev review ends on a paper from 2018 that introduces the concept of ‘oxygen of amplification’ which seems particularly relevant in the last few days.The…
Climate Change and Retreatist Anthropology
Laura Nader, in a 2013 interview (De Lauri 2013)—the message of which is no less salient today—stated: “For me anthropology is the freest of scientific endeavors because it…
James J. A. Blair, “Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic” (Cornell UP, 2023)
Salvaging Empire: Sovereignty, Natural Resources, and Environmental Science in the South Atlantic (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Dr. James J. A. Blair probes the historical roots and current predicaments…
Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl, “If You Should Go at Midnight: Legends and Legend Tripping in America” (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
Across today’s America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down…
Working Children: The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia
The International Labour Organization estimates that in Southeast Asia there are 30 million children engaged in paid work, 17 million in engaged in unpaid work and 50 million…