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El Delirio Virtual Campus Tour
In the winter of 2020, the Historic Santa Fe Foundation named SAR’s 1920s campus a site worthy of preservation (read the announcement). We …
2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
2021 J. I. Staley Prize Awarded to Laurence Ralph for Renegade Dreams, Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago …
SAR Learns! $50,000 Awarded to Support Indigenous Artists
SAR Learns! $50,000 Awarded to Support Indigenous Artists …
SAR Remembers Marshall David Sahlins
SAR Remembers Marshall David Sahlins The Scho…
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows …
The Pandemic Shift: The School for Advanced Research Annual Report
Historian C. J. Alvarez came to SAR to work on a project exploring the US-Mexico border as a bioregion and to challenge, through his writin…
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo
Living Nations, Living Words, SAR Welcomes Joy Harjo …
Ende Call for Papers
Noch bis zum 15.2.21 können Sie sich mit einem Beitrag zur DGSKA-Tagung 2021 bewerben. Diese findet digital vom 27.-30.9.2021 statt. Call for Papers Call for Films
Must Conservation and Indigenous Rights Clash?
A group of Baiga tribespeople stand together. The Indian government has evicted thousands of Baiga people to make way for a wildlife reserve. Simon Williams/Ekta Parishad/Wikimedia Commons …
Best of SAPIENS 2020
[no-caption] Mint Images/Getty Images This year humanity was confronted with a crush of pressing issues both old and new: a pandemic, political unrest, a widespread reckoning with racism…
Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
[no-caption] Ada daSilva/Getty Images The Coronavirus Pandemic 2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19 swept the globe. This highly contagious virus moves from person to person,…
Zeugnisverweigerungsrecht für Wissenschaftler*innen
Gemeinsam mit dem Vorstand der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW) sowie einzelnen Wissenschaftler*innen unserer Fachgesellschaft startet der DGSKA-Vorstand eine Initiative für die…
A Story Still Being Written: SAR Campus Recognized by Historic Santa Fe Foundation
Community lives not only in people, but in places. Places like El Delirio, originally home to Amelia Elizabeth and Martha Root White and no…
Messages and Monuments: Perspectives on Collective Memories
Messages and Monuments: Perspectives on Collective Memories Free Virtual Program Invi…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Stephen Sullivan Listens to the Soundscapes of Gentrification
My project is less interested in the so-called problem of noise than understanding urban neighborhood sounds more capaciously as social ph…
Amtsübergabe an Carola Lentz als neue Präsidentin des Goethe-Instituts
Heute findet die Amtsübergabe zwischen dem scheidenden Präsidenten Klaus-Dieter Lehmann und seiner Nachfolgerin Carola Lentz statt. Damit steht erstmals eine Ethnologin an der Spitze des Goethe-Instit…
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…
Ausschreibung DGSKA-Dissertationspreis 2021
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V. schreibt zum zweiten Mal ihren Dissertationspreis aus. Dieser Preis soll der besonderen Anerkennung herausragender wissenschaftlicher…
Neuer Boas-Blog online: DGSKA-Herbstakademie
Ein neuer Boas-Blog ist jetzt online, und zwar mit den ersten Inputs von der DGSKA-Herbstakademie „Fieldwork meets Crisis“. Die erste Herbstschule der DGSKA nahm ihren Ausgangspunkt im akt…
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Robert Caldwell and the Genealogy of a Map
I love maps. I have a great interest in Indigenous cartographies, as well as the numerous kinds of ethnographic information we might find …
Honoring a Life of Creativity and Artistic Talent
Honoring a Life of Creativity and Artistic Talent …
A Mammoth Find Near Mexico City
Archaeologists, restorers, and laborers have worked together to uncover thousands of late Pleistocene animal remains. Melitón Tapia, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico …
SAR Resident Scholar Colloquium Preview: Alina R. Méndez and the Bracero Program
It is imperative that we include social reproduction in conversations about immigration reform. The braceros and unauthorized migrants who…