As a community of researchers in Social and Cultural Anthropology, we stand in solidarity with students who occupy the Main Building of the University of Helsinki. We fully…
Congratulations: Lena Kaufmann has been awarded a highly competitive Ambizione Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her project “Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspon…
Installation view of “Grounded In Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery,” at the Metropolitan Museum …
Max Early at the 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. It’s been 101 years since the …
This article investigates the relatively little explored urban development in China’s Northwestern Uyghur homeland of XUAR (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). Based on 12 months of ethnographic field…
Until the 1990s and the spread of air-conditioning, cooling down during the hot, humid, and windless summers in the city of Chongqing (Southwest China) was mainly practiced outdoors:…
Blog by Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research SAR’s In…
Image: SMNAC Core Group meeting in 2019. Photo by Elysia Poon, courtesy School for Advanced Research …
Our monthly colloquium resumes this May. See our dates below! These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum…
The RG China(s) congratulates Prof. Dr. Jean-Bapiste Pettier for starting a new position as a professor for social and cultural anthropology, focus East Asia/China at Friedrich-Alexander Universität E…
Die Regionalgruppe China(s) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie setzt sich aus Forschenden der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie sowie der Sinologie zusammen, die mit qualitat…
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager Historically, museums and academic insti…
The School for Advanced Research is delighted to welcome our first post-pandemic Adams Fellow in the history o…
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s 2023 Preservation Award for…
SAR Announces 2023-2024 Native Artist Fellows …
Photo courtesy: Louie Garcia (Tiwa/Piro), the artist of this traditional Pueblo weaving. The New Mexico Pueblo Fiber Arts Guild, in collaboration with the Poeh Cultural Center and School…
By Melinda Sue Robbins, Grants Manager, School for Advanced Research …
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members …
On February 25, SAR President Michael F. Brown, Ph.D., presented SAR’s first ever Centennial Medal to author N. Scott Momaday for distinguished service to SAR and the world.…
The minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao) in the People’s Republic of China has been claimed to be the „world’s largest cash-based social policy.“ Examining the making of d…
The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2023 is Gwen Burnyeat for her book The Face of Peace. Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia. Gwen Burnyeat is Junior Research…
By Laura Elliff Cruz, Collections Manager, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research After teaching an SAR member class in early December, Caring for Your Personal Collections…
On July 31 this year Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery opened in Santa Fe at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture. The exhibition, curated…
Will Wilson, William Wilson, citizen of the Navajo Nation, trans-customary Diné artist, 2012. Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King…