How much caffeine is in a cup of tea? Is it more than coffee?
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SAR Members Tour Chaco Canyon and Related Sites
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…
SAR Board Member Appointed to Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President Biden
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…
Metaphysics Is a Piece of Cake
…time is not natural: it is a social product. A year might be the duration that has elapsed as the Earth circles the sun, but our planet’s orbital…
Knowledge quilt
CLEAR Artist in Residence Dr. Pam Hall led us in the creation of a knowledge quilt made from parts of a lab coat.
Workbook on colonialism, mapping, and oil
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…
Collective Consent for research projects
When a researcher asks to use CLEAR as a study site, we use a collective consent process to decide together.
Hiring FT or PT research writer
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…
Hiring full-time & part-time research positions in Indigenous methodologies and feminist STS (fall 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…
Celebrating 100 Years of Santa Fe’s Indian Market
The School for American Research (SAR) started the Santa Fe Indian Market one hundred years ago this September. SAR’s first director,…
Reflections on Novel Writing in Anthropology
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…
Valentina Napolitano & Kristin Norget: Pope Francis, Reconciliation, and the State
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…
Digging for Birds
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…
‘Who Were You When You Stepped to This Pot?’ :
‘Who Were You When You Stepped to This Pot?’1: A Lesson in Community Curation from Grounded in Clay Guest post by Emily Santhanam …
SAR Alumna Op-Ed on Wildfires and Climate Change is Published in Los Angeles Times
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…
Don Nonini: The China Conundrum and The Current Conjuncture
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…
Focaalblog: New Times? Confronting the Escalating Crises of Global Capitalism
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…
Forging Her Path: Dr. Adriana María Linares-Palma, 2021-2022 Paloheimo Fellow
Written by Kat Bernhardt, Advancement Associate, SAR With her sparkling dark eyes and guarded genuine smile, there is a big-hearted opennes…
Céline Cantat: The reception spectacle: on Ukrainian displacement and selective empathy at Europe’s borders
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive on Ukraine on February 24th, over 5 million people have registered for temporary protection programmes and other schemes across Europe. By…
Centennial of the Indian Arts Research Center Collections: Gala Dinner and Auction
Thunder and light rain did not keep 100 stalwart gala guests from descending the stone steps to enter a white-tented world where they were …
Ida Susser: Melenchon: the creation of a left political bloc
On June 19, 2022, the united left party, NUPES (New Ecological and Social Popular Union), cobbled together by Jean-Luc Melenchon in less than two months, won enough seats…
Reflections on SAR’s “Seeking Justice” Webinar Series
On June 2 SAR held the sixth and final webinar in a series called Seeking Justice: Toward a More Equitable America, which launched in February. The series was…
Alice Tilche & Akshay Khanna: Embodying emotions in theatre and film
This is the second in our series of blogposts in relation to the Budhan podcast project, a community led initiative that has sought to capture the experiences of…
Denys Gorbach: Ukrainian identity map in wartime: Thesis-antithesis-synthesis?
The cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of Ukraine is a well-known fact, used and abused in explanations of the ongoing war. Having taken root in the early modern period…