SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS
In a reflection of and paying respect to the collective nature of thinking, we have chosen to cite central aspects of the reviewers comments in each section. We…
Category: English
Daniel R. Smith, “The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945” (Manchester UP, 2023)
Who are the English upper class? In The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945 (Manchester UP, 2023) Daniel Smith, a lecturer in sociology at…
Markus Virgil Höhne, “Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision” (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoing conflict has been subject to recent…
How X Became a Religion
Many people don’t believe me when I tell them ‘religion’ is not a cross-cultural phenomenon and that it was mostly in the 19th century when white people (i.e.…
Discussing Yemen, Transnationalism and Peacebuilding in the Netherlands
By Ewa Strzelecka and Marina de Regt. This June will be remembered as a month of celebrating Yemeni studies and dialogue in the Netherlands. The so-called forgotten war…
Indigenous Collections Care (ICC) Guide
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…
Collaborating So a 200-Year-Old Pipe Can Continue Its Work
A museum curator and a First Nations leader explain how a treaty pipe, sold at auction, exemplifies a new path for repatriations in Canada. A PIPE’S HOMECOMING In…
SECTION ONE: WRITING HUNDREDS, EXERCISING THOUGHT
In a reflection of and paying respect to the collective nature of thinking, we have chosen to cite central aspects of the reviewers comments in each section. We…
Indigenous Water Steward positions (PT, Saskatchewan)
The Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) is seeking to hire 3-4 youth researchers as part of the ‘Cleaning our Land and Water: Community Shoreline Cleanups Initiative’.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Entropy: Internet and Synthetic Biology Pioneer Randy Rettberg’s Story on How Information Was Forged
Our first encounter with Randy Rettberg was somewhat surreal. Not that the others weren’t—the sui generis atmosphere is always present—but that first meeting was set in a scenario…
‘Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science’ by Patrick L. Schmidt
Editor’s note: This newest addition to HAR Reviews pairs a review essay with a brief author Q&A. Our reviewer, Karen Field, drafted the essay first and then brought…
Summer anthropologies: beaches and baseball
Mid to late 1990s beach scene. North San Diego County, CA. Photo: Ryan Anderson All the grades are in, summer is here, and we can all start ‘relaxing’…
Toward A Happy Lab: Biology Neophytes’ Adaptation to Research Logic
ByLiang QuiyanMSc Biosocial Medical Anthropology, 2022-23 The complexity of biological life poses a challenge to the study of its mechanisms: in lab contexts, the interpretation requires at le…
Katrina Daly Thompson on their book, Muslims on the Margins
Interview by Ben Ale-Ebrahim https://nyupress.org/9781479814350/muslims-on-the-margins/ Ben Ale-Ebrahim: Muslims on the Margins is an ethnography of “nonconformist” Muslims living primarily…
Introduction: Building Bodies for Thought
While academic thinking increasingly shapes itself along the structure of the scientific journal article, compelling steadfast arguments that smoothly steer readers from question to conclusion (Grünfe…
The Heaviness
A multidisciplinary poet-scholar and suicide attempt and multi-suicide loss survivor unveils complex anthropological threads that shape suicidal ideation. ✽ Worldwide, most people know someone who ha…
My Academic Career Has Been Characterized by Efforts to Prohibit Dialogue on Palestine and with Palestinians. For this Reason, I am Voting “Yes” in the AAA Vote to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions
By Kyle B. Craig I entered academia with a certain level of naivete. During my undergraduate studies in Anthropology, I became energized by a discipline I felt was…
Reproductive Rights and the Power of Comparison
Introduction In 1980 I wrote a piece called “Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women.” In it I posited that control over women in the West and East…
Tom Higham, “The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins” (Yale UP, 2021)
Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts…
Call for reviewers: Books on mobilities and migration!
The past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working within new labor regimes, diasporic communities have sought…
Amy Tooth Murphy et al., “New Directions in Queer Oral History: Archives of Disruption” (Routledge, 2022)
New Directions in Queer Oral History, edited by Amy Tooth Murphy, Clare Summerskill, and Emma Vickers (Routledge, 2022) is a comprehensive international collection that reflects on the practice, purpose,…
The worrisome shift to the right of Nordic development cooperation
As a new minister for development and trade takes over #globaldev in Finland, it is time to take a closer look at how profoundly the foundations of Nordic…
Entrepreneurship and Ethics in the Age of AI with Ahmed Reza
In a world where technology is advancing at an exponential pace, we can already see that artificial intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on our lives. But…
SAR welcomes 2023 William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Fellow Christopher Nelson
The School for Advanced Research is delighted to welcome our first post-pandemic Adams Fellow in the history o…