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Alma Gottlieb , January 26th, 2022
I began interviewing authors of fabulous new anthropology books for this space back in 2016. While completing 11 interviews, I also amassed a backlog of more terrific books…

colinhoag , November 2nd, 2021
By Alejandra Melian-Morse, McGill University § The very first scene of the BBC’s Planet Earth II (Berlowitz et al. 2016) breaks the mould of early BBC natural history…
Sarah Soliz , October 19th, 2021
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020–2021 Women in archaeology have come a long way. They now comprise half of al…
Sarah Soliz , July 9th, 2021
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Sarah Soliz , May 26th, 2021
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…
standplaatswereld , April 15th, 2021
By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have always wondered how anthropology meshed with…

Rex , January 21st, 2021
I’m very proud to announce that my interview with Martha Macintyre is now available, open access, from ANU Press. It is a chapter in the wonderful new volume…
Sarah Soliz , January 8th, 2021
In November 1981, anthropologists and tribal representatives gathered on the Pascua Pueblo Yaqui Reservation in southern Arizona for the 89…

Rex , January 7th, 2021
I wanted to let you know that my obituary of Jaimie Bloom is now available from American Anthropologist: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.13525 Jaimie’…
Jason Baird Jackson , December 22nd, 2020
I have been away from the project for some time, but I have resumed my journey through the programs of the annual meetings of the American Folklore Society….
Jason Baird Jackson , November 12th, 2020
Less than 100 papers were presented at the American Folklore Society meetings in the decade of 1900-1909. More than 3500 papers and films were presented during the decade…
Jason Baird Jackson , November 4th, 2020
This is another post in a series devoted to better understanding the place of Native North American and First Nations studies within the field of folklore studies as…
Sarah Soliz , November 3rd, 2020
During the nineteenth century, ideas about aging were changing. These ideas placed less of an emphasis on tradition and elders and focused…
Sarah Soliz , November 3rd, 2020
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….
Jason Baird Jackson , November 2nd, 2020
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were done in a non-sequential way. Several…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 30th, 2020
The two most recent posts in this series considered the state of Native North American and First Nations studies within the American Folklore Society (AFS) through the lens…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 30th, 2020
Carrying forward from the previous post on the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) during the 1980s and 1990s, my focus here is the presence and absence of Native…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 29th, 2020
In this post I continue considering the absence and presence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the American Folklore Society. Please look…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 26th, 2020
Here is the next in my series on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore Society,…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 26th, 2020
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work within the intellectual life of the…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 26th, 2020
In this post, I continue the work of assessing the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the work of the American Folklore…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 23rd, 2020
This series of posts are not attempting to achieve the rigor of a formal article or book. I am working in incremental bits for myself looking at some…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 23rd, 2020
Here we go again, this time looking at the 1910s. This post is the eighth in a series considering the absence and presence of Native North American and…
Jason Baird Jackson , October 21st, 2020
This is a seventh post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the life of the American Folklore Society…