Plato’s cave regrets to inform you it will be raising its rent
Xu Mason at McSweeney’s: As the costs of maintaining a cave meant to trap you in your ignorance increases year after year, we want you to know, from…
Tag: Blog
Attraction and repulsion are two points on a triangle. Distraction is the third.
David Schurman Wallace at the Paris Review: Despite all the hand-wringing about distraction, it’s asked less often what it is that we want to attend to in the…
What does the “participation” of Indigenous peoples in plastics pollution governance mean?
CLEAR’s new review paper looks at the ways different author groups understand Indigenous “participation” in divergent ways, and what this does to how plastic pollution itself is understood.
Reflections on the Makkovik plastics identification workshop
Our research team shares the highlights of the community-based research process
Inuit Research Assistant, Nain (full time or part time)
We’re looking for an Inuit Research Assistant based in Nain, Nunatsiavut to support plastic and other northern contaminant research. All training is provided.
Menara Guizardi: Notes on the Political Capitalization of Anguish and Hope in Argentina (and the American Southern-Cone)
In recent work, several authors in anthropology have analyzed how the extreme right is being configured and acquiring a considerable pull on the mainstream (see: Kalb, 2023a; Semán…
Over Thirty Past SAR Artist Fellows Show Work at the 2023 Santa Fe Indian Market
Max Early at the 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s been 101 years since the …
In the House that Jack Built
The heat promised to be oppressive in the courtyard of the house that Jack built. Yet there was hope as guests…
Taken Rapanui Heritage project
In 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic, the tourism industry came to a complete halt, leaving Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) almost entirely isolated from the rest…
SAR Awarded Over $225,000 by Institute for Museum and Library Services
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR’s In…
Citational politics training module
An introductory assignment on the politics of citation, with a guided quiz for students to think about how they might change their citation practices to best align with…
Plastics Identification Workshop (Makkovik) / Palâtikkisajannut Nalunaittauningit katingaKatigennik (Makkovik)
We are in Makkovik as part of a long-term plastic monitoring program in Nunatsiavut to identify plastics from shorelines, and we need your help! Makkovimmevugut ilangagijaulluni akuni palâtikkisajanni…
Grounded in Clay Exhibition Debuts in New York
Blog by Helen Brooks, Director, Leadership Giving, School for Advanced Research Ju…
New Standards for Museums with Native American Collections (SMNAC) Now Available
Image: SMNAC Core Group meeting in 2019. Photo by Elysia Poon, courtesy School for Advanced Research …
AI’s Truth, Lies, and Ethos
Summary: Conversational artificial intelligence is often a form of storytelling, and underlying some of AI’s stories is an artificial ethos that could be insidious. I am a cultural…
Sina ma Tinirau now online
Sina Ma Tinirau, the award-winning animated short featuring Polynesia’s best-known love story of all time, is now available online!
“Esteemed, Albeit Slightly Unhinged:” the Portrayal of Anthropology Professor June Bauer in US Sitcom Community
Betty White made a cameo in the first episode of season two in the hugely popular US sitcom Community, rocking the role of anthropology Professor June Bauer. Described…
Markus Balkenhol: Apologizing for slavery: notes on a Dutch surprise
On 1 July 2021, 148 years after slavery ended in the Dutch West Indian colonies, Femke Halsema, the Mayor of Amsterdam, said: ‘For the active involvement of the…
Indigenous Collections Care (ICC) Guide
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…
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’.
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…
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…
Crossing Between Worlds and Generations: SAR Visits Canyon de Chelly
Lupita McClanahan guides SAR members down the White House Trail, Canyon de Chelly…
Chris Hann: Thanks, Türkiye
How does Recep Tayyip Erdoğan do it? In Spring 2023, the economy is in a mess, inflation accelerating, and corruption rife. Government aid in the wake of a…