by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Global Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press
2012. Edited by Tressa Berman
This book encompasses a diverse group of artists, curators, art historians, and anthropologists from Australia and North America in order to investigate social relations of possession through the artifacts and motifs of Indigenous expressive culture.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Global Indigenous Politics, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press
2009. Nancy Marie Mithlo
In this pathbreaking study, anthropologist Nancy Marie Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of pan-Indianism, the significance of realist ideologies, and the employment of alterity in Native American arts.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon
1989. Douglas W. Schwartz
Written for a general audience, this book alternates between insightful accounts of Schwartz’s personal experiences in the canyon and explorations of the lives and cultures of its early and late inhabitants.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Cultural Anthropology, Global Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press
2010. Maximilian Viatori
This volume traces the Zápara nationality’s process of self-organization and emergence within Ecuador’s Indigenous movement from 1998 to 2008, to explore the complex role that multiculturalism has played in local Indigenous politics. The paradoxical treatment of Indigenous identity is the subject of this book.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Thomas W. Killion
In 1989–90, Congress enacted two laws, the National Museum of the American Indian Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. What effects have these laws had on anthropological practice, theory, and education in the United States?
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Cultural Anthropology, Resident Scholar, Southwest
1992. Jerrold E. Levy
Challenging the widely held view of the Hopi Indians of Arizona as a sober, peaceful, and cooperative people with an egalitarian social organization, Levy examines the 1906 split in the Third Mesa village of Orayvi.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology
1995. Edited by Lawrence Rosen
The authors argue that although intentionality might appear to be a wholly abstract phenomenon, it is deeply entwined with the nature and distribution of power, the portrayal of events, the assessment of personhood, the interplay of trust and deception, and the assessment of moral and legal responsibility.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Global Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Peoples
2014. Edited by Charles R. Hale and Lynn Stephen
The six research projects that form the core of the Otros Saberes initiative bring together a diverse group of Afro-descendant and indigenous collaborations with academics. The focus of each research project is driven by a strategic priority in the life of the community, organization, or social movement concerned.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Indigenous Peoples, Resident Scholar
2014. Jennifer A. Shannon
It is a narrowly focused account of a particular kind of curatorial practice called “community curating.” It is also an account of many different people struggling to do their best under the weight of a monumental task: to represent all Native peoples of the Americas in the first institution of its kind, a national museum dedicated to the first peoples of the hemisphere.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, Southwest
1999. Edited by Barbara J. King
In this volume ten primatologists and paleoanthropologists conduct a comprehensive examination of the nonhuman primate data, discussing different views of what language is and suggesting how the primatological perspective can be used to fashion more rigorous theories of language origins and evolution.