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The Familiar Strange , September 25th, 2022
As artificial intelligence and algorithmic surveillance become more ubiquitous, we should really start to think about our relationship, not just to internet tracking and data collection, but to…
Mary Madigan , September 14th, 2022
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, 2020-2021 Anne Ray Intern I arrived mid-morning at the Reception Center, the summer sun already high and bri…
focaal_admin , September 14th, 2022
Global production networks, as we know today, have repeatedly failed to ensure the rights of workers and their health and safety. These failings have been exposed time and…
The Familiar Strange , September 11th, 2022
In many ways, Dungeon Masters are the ethnographers of their own worlds. Granted, we’re not exactly interviewing the people who populate them, and we’re inventing most of the…
Grant Otsuki , September 10th, 2022
My programme is hiring two lecturers in cultural anthropology. These are junior level academic positions, equivalent to an assistant professor in the US. However, these jobs are permanent…
focaal_admin , September 5th, 2022
This is the third of our series of blogposts in relation to the Budhan Podcast project. In earlier posts we have looked at narrations of collective suffering and…
Michael F. Brown , August 31st, 2022
Steve Lekson briefing members at Chetro Ketl Chaco Canyon and the so-called “Chaco Phenomenon” have long evoked intense interest among SAR members. Our long tradition of annual Chaco…
Michael F. Brown , August 29th, 2022
Alex W. Barker, who joined the SAR board of directors in August, has been appointed by President Biden to the federal government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC). Alex…
Max Liboiron , August 26th, 2022
CLEAR Artist in Residence Dr. Pam Hall led us in the creation of a knowledge quilt made from parts of a lab coat.
clearstaff , August 26th, 2022
Artist Emily Roehl worked with CLEAR to create a workbook around the question: “How might we think about the tensions in attempting to address colonialism in mapping some…
Max Liboiron , August 26th, 2022
When a researcher asks to use CLEAR as a study site, we use a collective consent process to decide together.
Max Liboiron , August 20th, 2022
CLEAR is hiring a research writer to aid in the write-up of academic articles and/or community reports and whitepapers on the following topics: plastic pollution monitoring and laboratory…
Max Liboiron , August 20th, 2022
CLEAR is hiring one part-time (~10 hours/week) and one full-time (30-35 hours/week) research assistant position for the fall of 2022. The positions will start in September or October…
Lindsay Archuleta , August 18th, 2022
The School for American Research (SAR) started the Santa Fe Indian Market one hundred years ago this September. SAR’s first director,…
The Familiar Strange , August 14th, 2022
Ethnographers have long struggled with the nebulous in-between spaces of science on the one hand, and story-telling on the other. It was what my frustrated seminar professor described…
focaal_admin , August 12th, 2022
At the end of July, a remarkable event unfolded in three distinct but significant sites in Canada. Pope Francis, the Argentinian current supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic…
Anthropology365 , August 3rd, 2022
My partner and I bought a house in 2019 and moved to San Antonio, TX, in service of my pursuit of a Ph.D. in anthropology. One thing that…
Mary Madigan , July 21st, 2022
‘Who Were You When You Stepped to This Pot?’1: A Lesson in Community Curation from Grounded in Clay Guest post by Emily Santhanam …
Michael Brown , July 12th, 2022
Adriana Petryna, professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and an SAR summer scholar in 2014, has published an op-ed essay in the Los Angeles Times that…
Focaal Web Editor , July 11th, 2022
Strategic Ambivalence or Disguised Conflict? China’s Reactions to Russia’s War on Ukraine and to Covid Why does China’s response so far to the Russian invasion of Ukraine “not…
Focaal Web Editor , July 5th, 2022
Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies and the Commission on Global Transformations and Marxian Anthropology – IUAES, in cooperation with the Working Group for Public Sociology…
Mary Madigan , June 30th, 2022
Written by Kat Bernhardt, Advancement Associate, SAR With her sparkling dark eyes and guarded genuine smile, there is a big-hearted opennes…