
Greenland’s South: Inuit pastoralists in a rapidly changing Arctic environment
The first thing flying into Kangerlussuaq, Greenland reminds us that this is ‘properly’ Arctic. For most people who call the North home, the Arctic is further up North…
The first thing flying into Kangerlussuaq, Greenland reminds us that this is ‘properly’ Arctic. For most people who call the North home, the Arctic is further up North…
New Directions: An Insider’s Look at Native American Collections SAR President’s Circle members embarked…
A major contribution to Sámi Studies, The Sámi World presents a diversity of research topics from across Sápmi, providing rich and multifaceted understandings of Sámi worlds. The book…
On October 3rd our colleagues from the University from the “Sustainable Naturecultures” research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences host an interesting film screening including discu…
I would like to encourage you with this post to fill in a short anonymous survey on your experiences and challenges with the co-creation of knowledge here: https://survey.hifis.dkfz.de/351545…
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the…
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try…
Indigenous knowledge, or better indigenous ways of knowing, have been key to anthropological debates on human-environment relations in the Arctic, even more so since climate change has increased…
A word of congratulations to the freshly baked Doctor Ayonghe Akonwi Nebasifu! He just now defended successfully his PhD dissertation with the title Knowledge Integration in Co-management: A…
Many of you may have heard about the resistance of Sámi people against the Alta-Kautokeino hydroelectric dam in the 1970s-1980s. Even though the dam was built, the Sámi…
Most people on our planet make their life choices mostly about in which settlement, country, climate etc they want to live. But the remaining nomads in the Arctic…
Dolores Lewis Garcia and Claudia Mitchell during a collections review at the Indian Arts Research Center. Guest post by Emily Santha…
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Guest post by Emily Santhanam, 2020–2021 SAR Anne Ray Intern Walking toward the crowd, I felt a burn of energy in the air. People w…
Guest post by Jean and John Berghoff. New to membership in 2021 and seeking opportunities to better understand the Native American h…
Colleagues from the University of Manitoba have shared this generous scholarship opportunity. If you are interested in economics of Communities in the Canadian North, and would like to…
Drought is now a way of life. As a result, argue Patty Limerick and C. J. Alvarez in their recent Washington Post article, people throughou…
Guest post by Sháńdíín Brown, 2020–2021 Anne Ray intern The Diné are resilient people and know how to adapt to hardship. Before Euro…
When selecting resident scholars from the many who apply, SAR places special emphasis on applicants’ demonstrated ability to write in…
A new publication on Arctic Indigenous Peoples from The Sámi Council and German Arctic Office (at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) was…
Duane Maktima. Bolo tie + buckle, 1974, detail. Silver, turquoise, gold-lip mother-of-pearl, ironwood, coral, leather. SAR.1989-7-177AB. Ph…
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters), handmade plant dyes, earth pigments, and printed ‘ohe kāpala (bamboo stamps) on hand-sti…
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…