Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Senses of Place
In 1996 SAR Press published Senses of Place, an edited volume that originated as an SAR Advanced Seminar co-chaired by Steven Feld and Keit…
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Abram Lutes: Anatomy of an Autogolpe: On the consolidation of Nayib Bukele’s power in El Salvador
For the first time since El Salvador’s mid-20th century military dictatorship, a single political party dominates both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and by all…
My Divine Pet Rock
Amusing anecdotes about fieldwork were, from what I could tell, basic currency throughout university halls, on conference panels, and in graduate student lounges. Many of my teachers and…
Members Matter: Russ and Diane Kyncl
Guest post by SAR members Russ and Diane Kyncl. This is our fifty-year …
Spider Woman’s Knowledge and the Survival of Diné Textile Arts
Detail of weaving by Venancio Aragon (Diné), SAR’s 2020 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow. Guest post by Abra Wenzel. &…
CLEAR mini-documentaries
CLEAR has worked with Couple3 Films to make a series of short documentaries about the lab and our processes. We’ve also brought those processes into the filmmaking.
Slack (not that one) is necessary for effectiveness and productivity
A short post on a book by Tom DeMarco: Only when we are 0 percent busy can we step back and look at the bigger picture of what…
The Moral Economy of the English Football Fan in the Twenty-first Century
In late April of this year, it was announced that twelve of the wealthiest and best supported teams from across Europe would be competing in a new competition…
Welcome!
This is the personal homepage of Grant Jun Otsuki. I’m a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Recent Publications:In Anthropology Now: “…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Alina Méndez
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
My Reflections Two Years After Surviving a Classroom Shooting
Today marks two years since a classroom shooting happened while teaching my final class at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Six students were shot, two of which…
Infrastructuring an open access journal is easy, until it’s not
All respect to the Public Knowledge Project and Open Journal Systems. The ecosystem they’ve built over years is tremendous and respectable. For good reasons, “open access journal” h…
Members Matter. Meet Maria.
Members Matter. Meet Maria. …
Jaime A Alves: F*ck the Police! Murderous cops, the myth of police fragility and the case for an insurgent anthropology
‘Blue lives matter,’ says the mantra of police fragility. The mythology about defenseless officers being hunted and killed by criminals is indeed a powerful one, mobilized by right-wing…
Exploring Faith and Space with Hillsong Church
Mimicking a rock concert, I had to pre-book my space for the Hillsong service online before attending. Once on-site, I was scanned in by ushers with radios and…
2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago …
SAR Learns! $50,000 Awarded to Support Indigenous Artists
SAR Learns! $50,000 Awarded to Support Indigenous Artists …
SAR Remembers Marshall David Sahlins
SAR Remembers Marshall David Sahlins The Scho…
Holding Belief in Suspense
Some months ago, I went for an early morning run with a mate at my fieldsite. After a short trot together, she left for work, and I decided…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to John Arroyo
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Ted Chiang on Artificial Intelligence
Ted Chiang is a science fiction author who wrote the story that became Arrival (via Metafilter). Recently in The New Yorker: How much can you optimize for generality?…
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows …
GPT-Neo: An open source alternative to GPT-3
Access to GPT-3 remains limited, but “EleutherAI,” a “grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research,” has released GPT-Neo: GPT-Neo is the code …
A Brief Lindbergh Update
One of my more popular posts of late has been The Fall and Rise of Lindbergh: A Javelina Story. In that post, I tell the story of a…