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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. …
SAR Welcomes 2020–2021 Resident Scholars
This week SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars. For over forty years, SAR has awarded nine-month fellowships to a small group of …
The Fallible and the Untrustworthy: Writing Culture as the Unreliable Narrator
The notion of the Unreliable Narrator is, for me, not a critique of the perceived moral failings of the anthropological project, but a methodological narrative construct integral to…
SAR Mourns the Passing of Daniel T. “Bud” Kelly, Jr.
SAR Mourns the Passing of Daniel T. “Bud” Kelly, Jr. …
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community
SAR Welcomes New 2020 Board Members: Perspectives from the Arts, Law, Academics, and Business Community …
A Tale of Two Snakes
Upon entering the warmest room in our house, we are greeted with the subtle smell of earth. In this room is a 36″X18″X12″ bioactive habitat with two small…
In the Vault: Perfectly Balanced – Zuni Earrings
Story by IARC collections assistant Molly Winslow In our recent In the Vaults series, we are sharing some of our staff favorites from the I…
Strange Work in Familiar Places: Inside Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Border Hotels
The new appreciation of previously dismissed types of work may be short lived, and their ongoing fight for a living wage is certainly not won. However, this crisis…
Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm
Banner from a rally at the California State Capitol building in the fall of 2019. Photo by Deborah Boehm. …
Cain and Able: A Reflection on Coronavirus
The story of Cain and Able from the Christian Holy Bible is common knowledge but to recap. Cain and Able both offer sacrifices to God: Cain offering produce…
AI written blog goes viral, almost nobody notices
Liam Porr (via waxy.org): Over the last two weeks, I’ve been promoting a blog written by GPT-3. I would write the title and introduction, add a photo, and…
Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with John Nieto-Phillips
In August of 2019, Professor John Nieto-Phillips joined SAR’s board of directors. He has brought to SAR a dedication to opening academic in…
Blurred lines and dead chooks in fieldwork
My own fieldwork experience, like many others, demonstrates a blurring in what is ‘professional’ and ‘personal’, what is ‘leisure’ and ‘work’, whether you are researcher, student, or known…
A New Way of Connecting: SAR Virtual Happy Hours
The SAR President’s Circle is a group of philanthropic individuals who give generously to support SAR’s mission and programs, helping to fo…
Processing a Pandemic: A Conversation with Alan Swedlund
To understand pandemics you have to know what’s going on in the small places because a pandemic is not uniform around the country or unifo…
In the Vault: Coil and Sifter Basket, Pootsaya
Story by IARC curator of education Felicia Garcia With my basket I decided to send out a message. The coil is to represent a tight foundat…
The Search for a Good Online Journal Platform
There’s an old saying, probably from a management textbook somewhere, that I see pop up on the software developer side of the internet from time to time. Everyone…
Richard H. Robbins: The Economy After Covid-19
Richard H. Robbins, SUNY Plattsburgh One feature of both the economic recession of 2007/2008 and the present Covid-19-induced economic collapse is increased central bank bouts of quantitative easi…
Labor-based Grading
Sandie Friedman at Inside Higher-Ed on Asao Inoue’s “Labor-Based Grading System”: Any rubric that evaluates students’ language according to a single standard — which is invariably a white,…
Mentors and Friends: SAR’s 2019–2020 Resident Scholars
Every year SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars, who spend nine months studying, writing, and participating in the intellectual l…
Brotgelehrte.de – Transparenz
Bild von Наталья Коллегова auf Pixabay Als ich den Blog “Brotgelehrte” 2012 startete, war meine ursprüngliche Idee, das Buch „Berufe für Historiker“ (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2010) mit ak…