Lesley Gill: Can the Left Revive the ‘Pink Tide’ amid a Global Pandemic?
As Covid-19 has washed over Latin America like a tsunami and the pillars of shaky economies have shuddered under lockdowns, the priority of profits over public welfare stands…
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Insurrection, Accountability, and Reconciliation
Note: This piece is merely a stream of conscious as I watch and think about the impeachment. Last week, we Americans watched a violent insurrection unfold at the…
A Healed Greenwood: Lessons in Restorative Justice Archaeology from Tulsa, Oklahoma
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020-2021 We began the class …
Summer Scholar Colloquium: Nicholas Barron Brings the History of Anthropology into the Present
In November 1981, anthropologists and tribal representatives gathered on the Pascua Pueblo Yaqui Reservation in southern Arizona for the 89…
Looking Forward, Looking Back
Looking Forward, Looking Back …
Weihnachtsferien
Bald ist Weihnachten… kaum zu glauben, wie schnell es doch wieder ging. Dieses Jahr wird es durch die aktuelle Situation gewiss anders, aber deswegen nicht weniger schön. Man…
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program
Guidelines in Action: The University of Colorado Museum Studies Program …
Venancio Aragon: Weaving the Colors of the World
Guest post by Sháńdíín Brown, SAR Anne Ray intern, 2020–2021 Venancio Aragon is …
Shadows, Ambiguity, and More-Than-Human Politics
My first glimpse of a peccary/javelina at one of my fieldsites. I am currently working on a manuscript exploring the ways that both literal and metaphorical shadows produce…
Mission By Mail: Evangelism in a Pandemic
Religion is no “opiate of the masses.” Rich and poor, educated and ignorant alike flock to the call of certainty in these uncertain times. Rather than action based…
Ida Susser: Covid, police brutality and race: are ongoing French mobilizations breaking through the class boundaries?
On May 31, 2020, the US exploded in protest to address the super-exploitation of racism, which has uniquely scarred its history. This was followed by international demonstrations, including…
Speaking for the Dead: Narratives of Genomics and Colonization
This is a paper that I wrote for a Ph.D. course: Nature and Capitalism. I’ve been sitting on it and I don’t think I am going to do…
A Story Still Being Written: SAR Campus Recognized by Historic Santa Fe Foundation
Community lives not only in people, but in places. Places like El Delirio, originally home to Amelia Elizabeth and Martha Root White and no…
SAR Press Conversations: What Do Ancient Empires Teach Us about the Modern World?
Empires have profoundly shaped societies around the world for thousands of years. Yet scholarship often portrays imperialism as the result…
Navigating Lockdown: What Studying Vipassana Mediation Taught Me About Surviving Melbourne’s Intense Lockdown
While last year I was busy being quite the adventurous backpacker, this year my biggest achievement has been to walk beyond the well-worn path between my bedroom and…
Messages and Monuments: Perspectives on Collective Memories
Messages and Monuments: Perspectives on Collective Memories Free Virtual Program Invi…
Samuel W. Rose: Disconnected Development Studies: Indigenous North America and the Anthropology of Development
The purpose of this work is to examine and elaborate on the relationship between the people of Native North America and the material and ideological content of developmentalism…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Stephen Sullivan Listens to the Soundscapes of Gentrification
My project is less interested in the so-called problem of noise than understanding urban neighborhood sounds more capaciously as social ph…
In the Vault: Beatien Yazz Watercolor
Beatien Yazz, Diné (Navajo), 1946, Watercolor on paper, SAR.1983-12-150. Photograph by Addison Doty, Copyright 2020 School for Advanced Res…
Extreme Anthropology
During my exploration of anthropology in the Directory of Open Access Journals, I came across the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. Just the title entices, but the contents are…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Alanna Warner-Smith Examines Labor and Inequality in Nineteenth-Century New York City
During the nineteenth century, ideas about aging were changing. These ideas placed less of an emphasis on tradition and elders and focused…
SAR Press Top Reads: Politics and Power
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.…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Greatest Hits: An Annotated Short List by SAR In-Depth Course Instructor Michael Hindus
With the passing of Supreme Court justice and cultural icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we asked Michael S. Hindus to share a few of her “gr…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Nicholas Barron
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…