Scholar, Mentor, Trailblazer: Linda Cordell’s Influence on Contemporary Archaeology
Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray Intern 2020–2021 Women in archaeology have come a long way. They now comprise …
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Robert Caldwell
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
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 …
Anthropology and religion at the Vrije Universiteit – a short history
By Matthias Teeuwen The Vrije Universiteit originally had a strong confessional commitment to the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and I have …
Go read my interview with Martha Macintyre!
I’m very proud to announce that my interview with Martha Macintyre is now available, open access, from ANU Press. It is a …
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…
Vale Jaimie Pearl Bloom
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’…
Native North American Studies at the AFS Annual Meetings, 1990-1994
I have been away from the project for some time, but I have resumed my journey through the programs of the annual …
Native North American Studies at the AFS Annual Meetings of the 1980s
Less than 100 papers were presented at the American Folklore Society meetings in the decade of 1900-1909. More than 3500 papers and …
Native North American Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society during the First Decade of the 20th Century (1900-1909)
This is another post in a series devoted to better understanding the place of Native North American and First Nations studies within …
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 …
Organizing the Material So Far (Native North American Studies and AFS)
The posts on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of the AFS were …
In the Beginning: Native North American Studies in the American Folklore Society to 1899
The two most recent posts in this series considered the state of Native North American and First Nations studies within the American …
Native North American Studies in the Journal of American Folklore During the 2000s and 2010s
Carrying forward from the previous post on the Journal of American Folklore (JAF) during the 1980s and 1990s, my focus here is …
Native North American Studies in the Journal of American Folklore During the 1980s and 1990s
In this post I continue considering the absence and presence of Native North American and First Nations studies within the work of …
And Now for the 1970s: Native North American and First Nations Folklore Studies After the Field Gets Big
Here is the next in my series on the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in the …
The 1960s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
Here again is a post from my series considering the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies work …
The 1950s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
In this post, I continue the work of assessing the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations studies in …
The 1940s: JAF and Zumwalt’s American Folklore Scholarship
This series of posts are not attempting to achieve the rigor of a formal article or book. I am working in incremental …
Native American and First Nations Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society During the 1910s
Here we go again, this time looking at the 1910s. This post is the eighth in a series considering the absence and …
Native American and First Nations Studies in the Work of the American Folklore Society During the 1920s
This is a seventh post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the …
Native American and First Nations Studies at the American Folklore Society Meetings During the 1930s
This is a fifth post in a series on the presence and absence of Native American and First Nations studies within the …
The 1930s from the Perspective of the Journal of American Folklore
This is the sixth post in the series looking at the presence and absence of Native North American and First Nations scholars …