by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2011. Edited by Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield
Suffering and charity have a long history. The contributors to Forces of Compassion examine this sector through the lens of anthropology, looking at dominant practices, tensions, and beliefs.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Resident Scholar, SAR Press
2012. Edited by Michael A. Adler and Susan Benton Bruning
In the middle of this roiling debate over who has the right to collect and display antiquities, a group of scholars convened to debate differing perspectives on the ethics of antiquities collecting.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Nandini Gunewardena & Ann Kingsolver
The authors in this volume employ feminist, ethnographic methods to examine what free trade and export processing zones, economic liberalization, and currency reform mean to women in Argentina, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Ghana, the United States, India, Jamaica, and many other places.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2009. Edited by Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer
By investigating the fields of violence that define our modern world, the authors are able to provide alternative global health paradigms that can be used to develop more effective policies and programs.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2005. Edited by Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford
Drawing on expertise in medical and ecological anthropology, the contributors challenge and deepen our understanding of the management, sale, and conceptualization of water as it affects human health. Designed for use by policymakers as well as researchers and students, the essays present complex realities in clear, accessible terms.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2012. Edited by Rachel Heiman, Carla Freeman, and Mark Liechty
Ethnographically rich and culturally particular, the essays in this volume elucidate middle-class experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to theories of class itself.
by operations | Apr 8, 2019 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2019. Edited by Erica Caple James
The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing and seek to understand how faith and organized religious charity can be mobilized to govern populations and their practices.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2003. Edited by Philip B. Stafford
This volume features ten scholars from anthropology, nursing, sociology, gerontology, human geography, and other disciplines who provide ethnographic case studies exploring critical care decision-making, models of care for people with Alzheimer’s disease, the way residents cope with the limitations, indignities, and opportunities of nursing home life, the roles of family members and nursing home employees, and the formulation of assisted living.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Popular Archaeology, SAR Press, Southwest
2008. Edited by Catherine S. Fowler and Don D. Fowler
This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years. The authors highlight the ingenious solutions people devised to sustain themselves in a difficult environment.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, SAR Press
1995. Melinda Elliott
In Great Excavations, journalist and researcher Melinda Elliott uncovers the crucial and exciting role played by the great archaeologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in unearthing the Southwest’s prehistoric past.