By taking control of 22 Israeli military bases and localities, sequestering over 200 hostages, and killing more than 1,000 civilians and soldiers (although many details remain ambiguous), Hamas…
The unfolding genocide in Palestine today is a continuation of Israel’s 75-year-old occupation and ethnic cleansing. This article provides a perspective on the ongoing tragedy from the vantage…
ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the stren…
Barbara Tedlock at Maya-themed holiday party, SAR Dobkin Boardroom, 2016 The School for Advanced Research is sad to report news of the death on September 11, 2023, of…
The algorithm swiftly gets it –yes, I am sucked in by news about Gaza- and collapses my social media platforms’ feeds into a monothematic thread that mirrors my…
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent question is raised in…
Tiya Miles, 2007 An interview of Tiya Miles (History, Harvard), an SAR resident scholar in 2007-2008, appeared in the New York Times Book Review’s “By the Book”…
Laura Nader, in a 2013 interview (De Lauri 2013)—the message of which is no less salient today—stated: “For me anthropology is the freest of scientific endeavors because it…
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
This Inuit-led project ireviewed over three and a half thousand documents relating to research in Nunavut and involving Nunavummiut between 1996 and 2022.
Diversity according to whiteness is not about who should occupy the spaces of public discourse, so much as it is about who should have the power to decide…
Author: Dr. Holly Walters, a cultural anthropologist at Wellesley College, United States. Her ethnographic work focuses on religion, pilgrimage, and politics in the Nepal Himalaya…
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR Rece…
Inspired by things linked in these recent posts, I wrote something for McSweeney’s.
The Coordinator will oversee the day to day logistics of running an international Indigenous Network.
The plenary “Contested Knowledge: Museological Perspectives” at the 2023 meeting of the German Anthropological Association…
Drs. Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives.
Drs. Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives.
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…
Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclin…
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.
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