At Anne-Wil Harzing’s Publish or Perish: When comparing Google Scholar and ISI citation scores, the Business academic has six times as many citations in Google Scholar than in…
Image 1: Social distancing signs. Photo by ©Acabashi CC-BY-SA 4.0 To understand the massive world-disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic we need a sociology of complicity. Since the different…
Cara Delevingne’s ‘Peg the Patriarchy’ moment from the 2021 Met Gala undoubtedly missed the mark. Delevingne and Dior both failed to credit the original creator of the slogan,…
I am from El Alto, one of the youngest cities in Bolivia, not only because of its recent creation (1985), but also because at least 45% of its…
When it comes to “decolonizing” Anthropology, diversity or decolonial initiatives often change very little or nothing at all. I suggest that anthropology is currently facing the dilemma of…
Anne Schiller – George Mason University Cultural anthropology courses frequently satisfy world cultures requirements, attracting enrollments from across the university. My 150-seat online introduct…
Guest post by Jean and John Berghoff. New to membership in 2021 and seeking opportunities to better understand the Native American h…
After a two-year hiatus, we’re delighted to announce the relaunching of UTP’s Teaching Culture blog. We are mindful of the incredible changes and challenges that have occurred and/or…
Caroline Wazer at Lapham’s Quarterly (via this on Metafilter), a discussion of three reviews of games in the Assassin’s Creed series in the American Historical Review, and video…
I don’t know when I first heard the term “toxic positivity” but it was sometime after my father was diagnosed with advancing dementia and before my own initial…
Drought is now a way of life. As a result, argue Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez in their recent Washington Post article, people throughou…
From Spacewhy on Medium: Most of the content generated is bad, like a repetitive HAL 9000 in its death agony—the program is in beta—but every once and a…
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
In what now feels like a lifetime ago, I was having one last catch up with a mate from my PhD cohort before we both set off for…
Identity and class While identity is of course a fundamental category in European philosophy at least since Aristotle, its politicization is a much more recent phenomenon. One can…
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020–2021 Women in archaeology have come a long way. They now comprise half of al…
David Graeber was certainly one of the most cited anthropologists of the early 21st century. More than a year after his untimely death, a substantive conversation about his…
Fieldwork is much more than just collecting data. —Ben Junge “Brazil has been a p…
You might not realise it, but you probably follow a Mormon lifestyle blogger on social media. It’s an aesthetic: the specific way knee-length dress is paired with an…
Valerie Miller1, Shradha Naveen2, Amanda Waller3, Jennifer L. Johnson4 Purdue University. mill2206@purdue.edu (corresponding author) Purdue University. snaveen@purdue.edu Purdue University. wallera@p…
In Greece, during the summer of 2021, we saw again a proliferation of wildfires that went on for days, like in 2020. While the climate change argument makes…
What does Sāmoa taste like? Taro? Palusami? Chop Suey? I’m sure if you were to ask 100 different Sāmoans, you’d get 100 different answers. Pasifika peoples, just like…
Guest post by Sháńdíín Brown, 2020–2021 Anne Ray intern The Diné are resilient people and know how to adapt to hardship. Before Euro…
Our local streets became our sole stomping ground, yet walking the same route everyday had some unexpected gains. On these very streets, actually on the very ground, something…