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…
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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…
Advertising Change: Presenting a New New Zealander?
The Southern Man advert is aiming to speak to a specific audience of beer drinkers, assumed by Speight’s to be men. Other beer companies have played with similar…
What are Effective dietary Supplements for weight loss?
What are Effective dietary Supplements for weight loss? DIETARY supplements (biologically active additives) are a combination of biologically active substances of mineral and vegetable origin, some ar…
Fiona Murphy: Irish State to seal records of Mother and Baby Homes for 30 years: Urgent call for action
Tiny bodies, the remains of little children entombed without name or mercy, are uncovered in Tuam, a small Irish town in Co. Galway in the west of Ireland,…
Interesting papers from the DOAJ
The Directory of Open Access Journals makes it fairly easy to find articles on many subjects published in smaller journals around the world. My guess is that many…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Robert Caldwell and the Genealogy of a Map
I love maps. I have a great interest in Indigenous cartographies, as well as the numerous kinds of ethnographic information we might find …
Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective Textbook Review
Christian but not ideological? Doesn’t promote perspectives in controversy but centers theological devotion? Biblical differences of opinion, but not anthropological ones? The centrality of “belief” a…
Honoring a Life of Creativity and Artistic Talent
Honoring a Life of Creativity and Artistic Talent …
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Alina R. Méndez and the Bracero Program
It is imperative that we include social reproduction in conversations about immigration reform. The braceros and unauthorized migrants who…
Shit’s getting real in more than one language
Back in March, I wrote a short piece analyzing the COVID-driven toilet paper hoarding phenomenon from an anthropological perspective. Since then, it’s become my most visited post, and…
Called to the Torah: Navigating Feminism and Jewish Law in Modern Orthodox Communities
The synagogue – a deeply symbolic cultural space – is a place where feminist congregants are increasingly seeking equality. These women wish to read from the Torah (a…
Adventures with Peccaries pt. 2
I spent time out in the Hill Country, north of San Antonio ,Texas. The clan that I worked with on this trip was made up of 8 total…
In the Vault: A Beautifully Made Basket
Story by IARC collections assistant Molly Winslow. For our In the Vaults series, we are sharing some of our staff favorites from the…
Adventures with Peccaries: pt. 1
I am currently in the early stages of designing a multispecies project working with the Cofán, an Indigenous people of Amazonian Ecuador, and two species of peccaries (white-lipped…
SAR Remembers Sally Merry
SAR Remembers Sally Merry …
ANZAC Cookies
If you’re an Australian, the title of this blog post likely felt kind of strange to you. Perhaps it just felt a bit wrong or maybe it made…
Nicole Weydmann, Kristina Großmann, Maribeth Erb, Novia Tirta Rahayu Tijaja: Healing in context: Traditional medicine has an important role to play in Indonesia’s fight against the coronavirus
The first two cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia were announced on 2 March 2020, quite late compared to other countries. The first patient was a 31-year-old woman who…
In Memoriam: David Graeber
happy now? pic.twitter.com/fIDlp2DOIs — David Graeber (@davidgraeber) June 3, 2020 David Graeber at a protest in London, June 3rd 2020 David Graeber: Anthropologist and Revo…
Industrializing Animal Life and Death: A Conversation with Alex Blanchette
Photograph courtesy and copyright of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. …