IARC Collections Highlight: Diné History and Adaptation
Guest post by Sháńdíín Brown, 2020–2021 Anne Ray intern The Diné are resilient people and know how to adapt to hardship. …
SAR Scholar Alumni in the National Press
When selecting resident scholars from the many who apply, SAR places special emphasis on applicants’ demonstrated ability to write in…
A snapshot of contemporary indigenous life – with emphasis on Sámi perspectives
A new publication on Arctic Indigenous Peoples from The Sámi Council and German Arctic Office (at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre …
Bolo Tie Highlights: An IARC Collection Reflection
Duane Maktima. Bolo tie + buckle, 1974, detail. Silver, turquoise, gold-lip mother-of-pearl, ironwood, coral, leather. SAR.1989-7-177AB. Ph…
Kapa-Making as a Way of Being: A Conversation with Lehuauakea
Mele O Nā Kaukani Wai (Song of a Thousand Waters), handmade plant dyes, earth pigments, and printed ‘ohe kāpala (bamboo stamps) on …
Locating Our Hope: Resilience and Compassion in the Indigenous Southwest
Fight the Virus Campaign, Poeh Cultural Center, Pueblo of Pojoaque. Guest post by Emily Santhanam, SAR Anne Ray intern 2020–2021 &n…
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…
Archaeology and Place at Chaco Canyon
Photograph of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, courtesy of Robert Adams. Archaeology and Place Archaeologists have been paying attent…
SAR Press Top Reads: Place, Environment, and Change
When life seems to be changing day by day, if not hour by hour, we look to sources of information that we …
Reindeer nomadism as profession, lifestyle, passion and love: Sergei Serotetto
русский текст ниже One of the world’s most respected reindeer nomads, 1954-2021, mourning for a friend (all photos in this post © …
Rethinking National Parks
Post by SAR president, Michael F. Brown Anthropologist, novelist, and SAR’s Katrin H. Lamon resident scholar of 2015–1…
Spider Woman’s Knowledge and the Survival of Diné Textile Arts
Detail of weaving by Venancio Aragon (Diné), SAR’s 2020 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow. Guest post by Abra Wenzel. …
Rain on snow – how do people and reindeer learn to survive?
This winter and spring we hear again disastrous news from sudden temperature rises and falls, leading to thick ice-crusts on reindeer pastures …
Trust Versus Paranoia: Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app?
Piers Vitebsky (pv100(at)cam.ac.uk) and Roza Laptander (roza.laptander(at)mail.ru) are going to give an interesting example on how to de-provincialise Arctic social sciences. This …
How a legacy of colonialism hinders vaccination efforts in Indigenous communities
By Soham Govande Today, hopes are held high that the COVID-19 vaccine will gradually bring an end to the pandemic. Due to …
The Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index – oil and gas better than mining?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bse.2698 This has been a long journey and a lot of work several years: jointly with a number of interdisciplinary colleagues, we …
SAR Press Top Reads: Indigenous Identity
Lara Evans, Water Keeps Moving, from the Directions for Home series, 2008. Digital print. Courtesy of the artist. Created wi…
Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala
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Long live the tundra nomads!
Just found out from the local news that in the Novyi Urengoy hospital two Nenets elders survived covid-19 and recovered from pneumonia, …
Language, silence and climate in Yamal
In spring we were proud to host the world’s first anthropological PhD defence in english by a Nenets colleague, Roza Laptander. Now …
Having conversations about health: Public health disparities on the Pine Ridge Native reservation
Indigenous communities have suffered for centuries at the hands of colonialism, and their isolation on reservations has affected their health and well-being …