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Jathilan Dance: Experiencing the Spirits
yelling, crawling and rolling. Later, they begin to show some animal-like behavior: hissing, roaring and moving on all fours. This is my fieldwork. The place is Java, the…
Kapa-Making as a Way of Being: A Conversation with Lehuauakea
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters), handmade plant dyes, earth pigments, and printed ‘ohe kāpala (bamboo stamps) on hand-sti…
Understanding My Mom’s Unorthodox Healing Practices
Sheets of newspaper cover a portion of the floor of our house in Manila, and on top of those thin pieces of paper sits a white candle, a…
Locating Our Hope: Resilience and Compassion in the Indigenous Southwest
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
Collective Listening: CLEAR Soundscapes
This project involves critical listening to reflect on our positionality within our lived environments. The project was conducted as part of CLEAR’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, facilitated by P…
Fieldwork Diary July 8-9, 2021
I am conducting research across Texas on Human and javelina relations. I am interested in how humans and other animals negotiate space at sites of encounter. During this…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Robert Caldwell
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Archaeology and Place at Chaco Canyon
Photograph of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, courtesy of Robert Adams. Archaeology and Place Archaeologists have been paying attent…
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer: Siberia, Protest and Politics: Shaman Alexander in Danger
In 2021 a modest long-haired Sakha man named Alexander Gabyshev was arrested at his family compound on the outskirts of Yakutsk in an unprecedented for Sakha Republic (Yakutia)…
Ethnographic Poetry and Academic Writing: A Reflection
“Whatever your eye can see, it’s vecik.” This line resonated with me while I was conducting my fieldwork in Taiwan with the indigenous Paiwan village known as Paridrayan.…
The Long, Dark Journey of a Historic Textile Treasure
The Long, Dark Journey of a Historic Textile Treasure …
Paul Stubbs: Liminal Temporalities of Hope in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Image 1: Shows Tuzla Plenum, 2014 (Photograph by Tamara Opačić from H-Alter, 17 February 2014, http://h-alter.org/vijesti/plenum-je-uvijek-korak-ispred, Used with permission). The space where I li…
Showing Our Strength: Resilience and Compassion in the Indigenous Southwest
Free virtual event explores resilience and perseverance across…
SAR Press Top Reads: Place, Environment, and Change
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we have come to know and trust.…
The researchers that search engines make invisible
I went to the university’s article database but finding this paper again wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
Waking up to the politics of citation
I found myself shocked by the importance of citation, and particularly by my lack of awareness of the impact my citing could have on others.
A Five Course Degustation for the Changing “Australian” Palette
To this day, I love fried Spam and eggs. The crunchy and salty slice of processed mystery meat dipped in just cooked egg yolk is one of my…
Qualifying Exams Reading List: Javelinas and Texas through Space and Time
Altrichter, Mariana. “The sustainability of subsistence hunting of peccaries in the Argentine Chaco.” Biological Conservation 126, no. 3 (2005): 351-362. Bement, Leland C.&nb…
Qualifying Exams Reading List: Power and Politics Within and Beyond the Human
Adamson, Joni. “Indigenous Literatures, Multinaturalism, and Avatar: The emergence of Indigenous cosmopolitics.” American Literary History 24, no. 1 (2012): 143-162. Agamben,…
Qualifying Exams Reading List: Multispecies Connections
Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World. Vintage, 2012. Archambault, Julie Soleil. “Taking love seriously in human-plant relations in…
Making a Multispecies Community: A Personal Journey
Since the start of the pandemic, my partner and I have worked to transform our San Antonio, TX backyard to a wildlife-friendly space. It began with a small…
El Delirio Virtual Campus Tour
In the winter of 2020, the Historic Santa Fe Foundation named SAR’s 1920s campus a site worthy of preservation (read the announcement). We …
Rethinking National Parks
Post by SAR president, Michael F. Brown Anthropologist, novelist, and SAR’s Katrin H. Lamon resident scholar of 2015–1…