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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…
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…
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…
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.
Our research team shares the highlights of the community-based research process
We’re looking for an Inuit Research Assistant based in Nain, Nunatsiavut to support plastic and other northern contaminant research. All training is provided.
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…
Max Early at the 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s been 101 years since the …
The heat promised to be oppressive in the courtyard of the house that Jack built. Yet there was hope as guests…
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…
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR’s In…
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…
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…
Blog by Helen Brooks, Director, Leadership Giving, School for Advanced Research Ju…
Image: SMNAC Core Group meeting in 2019. Photo by Elysia Poon, courtesy School for Advanced Research …
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, the award-winning animated short featuring Polynesia’s best-known love story of all time, is now available online!
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…
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…
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…
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’.
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…
The School for Advanced Research is delighted to welcome our first post-pandemic Adams Fellow in the history o…
Lupita McClanahan guides SAR members down the White House Trail, Canyon de Chelly…
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…