by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology
2014. Edited by David Griffith
Managed migration enables nation-states to regulate population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labor shortages with highly motivated workers; and offer people from poorer countries higher earning potential abroad through temporary absence from their families and homelands. Unfortunately, managed migration does not always work on the ground as well as it does on paper.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Archaeology, Resident Scholar
2007. Edited by Timothy A. Kohler and Sander E. van der Leeuw
This book is about new developments in applying dynamic models for understanding relatively small-scale human systems and the environments they inhabit and alter. Beginning with a complex systems approach, the authors develop a “model-based archaeology” that uses specific, generally quantitative models providing partial descriptions of socionatural systems of interest that are then examined against those systems.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | General Anthropology, Non-Series, SAR Press
1950.
This collection of vignettes written by colleagues, friends, and family of Sylvanus Morley provides an intimate look at a man who devoted his life to the study and understanding of the ancient Maya.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology
2016. Edited by Adeline Masquelier and Benjamin F. Soares
This volume focuses on young Muslims in a variety of settings in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America and explores the distinct pastimes and performances, processes of civic engagement and political action, entrepreneurial and consumption practices, forms of self-fashioning, and aspirations and struggles in which they engage as they seek to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology
2012. Edited by Catherine M. Tucker
This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religious studies, and science and technology have been at the forefront of critiquing the roles of religion and science in human interactions with the natural world.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2010. David M. Brugge
Combining archaeological evidence with Navajo cultural precepts, Brugge has used the records of the oldest European institution in the American Southwest – the Catholic Church – to shed light on the practices, causes, and effects of Spanish, Mexican, and American occupation on the Navajo Nation.
by operations | Feb 20, 2019 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2019. Edited by Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke, and Laura Eichelberger
The contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability.
by operations | Jun 7, 2018 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2018. Edited by Robert L. Anemone and Glenn C. Conroy
This volume brings together scholars who are currently applying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and methods of geographical information sciences (GIScience) to diverse data sets of anthropological interest.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Jane L. Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, & Brett Williams
Focusing on the United States, this volumes analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevolent state and the rise of the punitive, imperial state are related, how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies are melding, and how recurrent moral panics misrepresent class, race, gendered, and sexual realities on the ground.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
1972. Edited by Alfonso Ortiz
This volume, the result of an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, takes a fresh look at Pueblo Indian culture, with chapters on everything from language to religion, prehistory, ecology, and from literature to music.
