SAR Member Trip to Bears Ears, Utah
After a long pandemic-related hiatus, SAR relaunched member field trips on May 13 with a four-day journey to Bears Ears in Utah. Given the scale of this new…
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Seasonal Knowledge and Arab Gulf Almanacs
I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book: Seasonal Knowledge and the Almanac Tradition of the Arab Gulf. Details about the book, including a free…
Interview: Erkundungen von Kanadas nördlichen Transportinfrastrukturen
In May 2022, I did an interview with the Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) about my fieldwork on transport infrastructures in Northern Manitoba, Canada, within the ERC project…
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Hi all,This week’s debate about MSF’s use of images in their communication is a important reminder that the industry has barely started to engage with the past, present…
Land Violence and the Indigenous Female Body: Mapping the Guarani and Kaiowá experience
By Anaclara Giurfa de Brito, Tarsila Iglecio With contributions Amelia Yates, Anna Magrì and Sara Cano Diaz. Edited by Jaqueline Aranduha Photo by Fabiana Assis Fernandes The Fir…
Jafari S. Allen, “There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life” (Duke UP, 2022)
In There’s a Disco Ball Between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life (Duke UP, 2022), Jafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of what…
Cooking Debris in an Australian Cave Tells a Story of Resilience
Starting around 4,000 years ago, Bininj (Aboriginal people in Australia) adapted their diets to include more freshwater plants from wetlands, such as those in the Kakadu region (shown…
The Same Old Song and Dance: Nothing Has Been Done to Reduce Mass Shootings
We are only a few days removed from the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX where nearly two dozen people were murdered in cold…
Het doodlopend pad naar de brede avenue: Lithium in Bolivia
Door Ton Salman Je kunt de patstelling op meerdere manieren formuleren: je bent een land met een lange en wrange geschiedenis van plundering van je rijke natuurlijke hulpbronnen,…
SAR Board Member John Arroyo Wins Whiting Fellowship
John Arroyo SAR’s academic board members continue to win major fellowships focused on innovative work in the public policy arena. John Arroyo, a recent SAR-Mellon Foundation Latinx Resident…
Do Children Need Special Foods?
Ultraprocessed breakfast cereals, sometimes touted as “healthy” thanks to vitamin fortification, are one of the most popular foods targeted toward kids. Education Images/Getty Images In c…
Book Review: Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography by Sander Hölgens
In Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography, Sander Hölgens immerses body, board and camera lens in Seoul’s skateboarding scene to explore local variants of the ethos of authenticity that s…
Sean J. Drake, “Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb” (U California Press, 2022)
In Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb (U California Press, 2022), sociologist Sean J. Drake addresses long-standing problems of educational inequality from a nuanced…
Đồng Tháp poses the urgent questions for today.
Juxtaposing decayed US v Soviet war crap or a flower that blooms in slime. a Huey and a MIG and sundry other remnants from the pond in the…
When a great ship asks for deeper water
Harlingen’s harbour is usually half-empty on normal days. There are a few tall ships standing alone in water and many private modern yachts. Suddenly, among them you can…
The Deep Human Story of Collecting Fossils
The Greek myth of Odysseus and the one-eyed Cyclops may have been inspired by ancient mammoth and mastodon skulls, on which the opening for the trunk looks like…
Qatar and the World Cup – Questions and Answers
A while ago, a Swedish reporter asked me to answer a few questions about Qatar and the World Cup. The segment eventually got cut, but since I had…
“Emeryville is Weird”
When I would tell people I worked in the small San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Emeryville, they would almost always say, “Emeryville is weird.” And then the…
Mayfair Yang, “Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious…
Uncertain Heritage: Musicking in Estonia
Estonians often refer themselves as a “small Singing Nation”. Siyun Wu studies music heritage and its impact on Estonian society. She notes that in searching for their musical…
Florian Jaton on his book, The Constitution of Algorithms
Interview by Ilana Gershon https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/constitution-algorithms Ilana Gershon: This book is about the formation processes of algorithms. What, for you, was the socio…
Ganesh at An Giang
Bảo tàng An Giang. Here is Ganesa, 6th century, from Vong The commune, Thoai Song district, An Giang.
The 21st-century flaneur as a suspect?
Smith commits a crime is a tale of an everyday man trying to find his way – not in life, but – in space. This space looks essentially…
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, “Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine” (U California Press, 2022)
“Nước Việt Nam: a home, a cradle, a point of departure” (Gandhi, 1). The Vietnamese word nước embraces the duality of land and water with an idea of “home.” Through a…