Tag: anthropology
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community …
Ep#62 Job Fantasies, Working with Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited:This Month on TFS
The Familiar Strange · #62 Job Fantasies, Working With Others, Extractive Calls & Reciprocity Revisited This week we bring you another zoom panel! Featuring Mike Dunford who is…
A Tale of Two Snakes
Upon entering the warmest room in our house, we are greeted with the subtle smell of earth. In this room is a 36″X18″X12″ bioactive habitat with two small…
Upcoming Deadlines
Hello Food Anthropologists, The deadline to submit a presentation for the virtual AAA meetings, Raising our Voices is fast approaching – August 25th. See the email sent by…
“Islands in a sea of disbelief” – Militant activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany
It took us six years, but I’m very pleased to announce that, at last, our book: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany – ‘Islands in…
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Cain and Able: A Reflection on Coronavirus
The story of Cain and Able from the Christian Holy Bible is common knowledge but to recap. Cain and Able both offer sacrifices to God: Cain offering produce…
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center at Panmunjon, on the border of…
Ep #61 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland on Anti-Trafficking Initiatives in the Mekong Region
The Familiar Strange · #60 Switching Hats: Sverre Molland On Anti-Trafficking Initiatives In The Mekong Region A content warning before we get into this week’s interview. Today’s topic…
Irfan Ahmad on Liberalism & Islamophobia & Domophilia
My colleague Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Max Plancke Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. Among his…
Seeing Culture Everywhere: A Book Review by Keith Hart
The authors of this well-written book tell how they were pushed by their editor into writing for a general audience. They have succeeded without sacrificing analytical rigor. They…
A New Way of Connecting: SAR Virtual Happy Hours
The SAR President’s Circle is a group of philanthropic individuals who give generously to support SAR’s mission and programs, helping to fo…
Processing a Pandemic: A Conversation with Alan Swedlund
To understand pandemics you have to know what’s going on in the small places because a pandemic is not uniform around the country or unifo…
Indigenous-led technology can boost biodiversity and ensure human rights
by Simon Hoyte, Alice Sheppard, Marcos Moreu, Megan Laws, and Jerome Lewis Over recent years there have been high profile legal challenges, investigative articles in the media, and…
Eating Like an Alaskan?: Quarantine Reflections on the Anchorage Museum’s “What Why How We Eat” Exhibition
Abigail AdamsCentral Connecticut State University I’m writing from my dining room table and the CostCo bulk carton of matzoh peeks at me from a kitchen cupboard. I’m reminded…
Ep #60 Adapting Methods, Human Difference, Virtual Dojos and Foggy Field notes:This Month on TFS
Welcome back to a new season! With Covid-19 restrictions still in place, we bring you another Zoom panel! For this reason, the audio quality will be a little…
Op Eds
Dear SAFN members, Now is a good time to write op eds about the food system in the pandemic. Here is one we published in the Eugene Weekly…
Review: Religion in the Kitchen
Pérez , Elizabeth. (2016). Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. New York University Press. 320 pp. ISBN #9781479839551 Kristina Wirtz (Western…
In the Journals – Prisons and Pandemics
Prisoners’ Round by Vincent Van Gogh via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! My name is Ally, I am a graduate student beginning a Master’s in Anthropology at…
Labor-based Grading
Sandie Friedman at Inside Higher-Ed on Asao Inoue’s “Labor-Based Grading System”: Any rubric that evaluates students’ language according to a single standard — which is invariably a white,…
Mentors and Friends: SAR’s 2019–2020 Resident Scholars
Every year SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars, who spend nine months studying, writing, and participating in the intellectual l…
Archaeologies of Empire
Buy this volume SERIESAdvanced Seminar » CATEGORIESAncient Americas »Archaeology »General Ant…
Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León
Approximately 3,200 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died crossing the Sonoran Desert between the mid-1990s and 2019. These t…