by Sarah Soliz | Jan 26, 2022 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press, Southwest
2022. Edited by Alex E. Chávez and Gina M. Pérez, with a foreword by Arlene M. Dávila
The contributors to this volume highlight the value of radical inclusion in their research and explore how Latinx ethnographers and interlocutors work together in contexts of refusal, as well as the extraordinary possibilities offered by ethnography and its role in ongoing social transformation.
by Sarah Soliz | Jan 20, 2022 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2022. Edited by Shannon Lee Dawdy and Tamara Kneese
This book brings together scholars who are intrigued by today’s rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. What are the beliefs, values, and ontologies entwined with these emergent death practices? Are we witnessing a shifting relationship between the living and the dead?
by operations | Jul 10, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
2002. Edited by Susanna M. Hoffman and Anthony Oliver-Smith
Using a variety of natural and technological disasters-including Mexican earthquakes, drought in the Andes and in Africa, the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Oakland firestorm, and the Bhopal gas disaster-the authors of this volume explore the potentials of disaster for ecological, political-economic, and cultural approaches to anthropology along with the perspectives of archaeology and history.
by operations | Jul 10, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology
2005. Edited by Stanley E. Hyland
“Community” has long been a critical concept for social scientists, and never more so amid the growing economic inequity, natural and human disasters, and warfare of the opening years of the twenty-first century. In this volume, leading scholar-activists develop a conceptual framework for both the theory and practice of building communities.
by operations | Jul 10, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology
2009. Edited by Juliet McMullin and Diane Weiner
In this book, anthropologists examine the lived experiences of individuals confronting cancer and reveal the social context in which prevention and treatment may succeed or fail.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, SAR Press
2011. Edited by Laura McNamara and Robert A. Rubinstein
Throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century, anthropologists have watched with both interest and concern as government agencies — particularly those with military and intelligence functions — have sought their professional assistance in understanding terrorists’ motivations, stabilizing nascent wartime governments, and countering insurgencies.
by Sarah Soliz | May 17, 2021 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2021. Edited by Keith M. Murphy and Eitan Y. Wilf
This volume demonstrates the importance and power of design and its ubiquitous effects on human life. Collectively, the contributors argue that bringing design and anthropology together can transform both fields and that to tease out the implications of using design to reimagine ethnography—and of using ethnography to reimagine design—we need to consider the historical specificity of their entanglements.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2009. Edited by Anthony Oliver-Smith
Because there can be no return to land submerged under a dam-created lake or to a neighborhood buried under a stadium or throughway, the solutions devised to meet the needs of people displaced by development must be durable. The contributors to this volume analyze the failures of existing resettlement policies and propose just such durable solutions.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Applied Anthropology, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, General Anthropology, SAR Press
2015. Edited by Zoë Crossland and Rosemary A. Joyce
As bodies are revealed, so are hidden and often incommensurate understandings of the body after death. The theme of “disturbing bodies” has a double valence, evoking both the work that anthropologists do and also the ways in which the dead can, in turn, disturb the living through their material qualities, through dreams and other forms of presence, and through the political claims often articulated around them.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Applied Anthropology, Non-Series, SAR Press
1990. Edited by Steadman Upham
The contributors to this book rely on archaeological and ethnographic case studies to examine the social, economic, and political processes behind the development of these “middle-range” political systems, located on a continuum between communally organized hunter-gatherer bands and stratified, centralized chiefdoms and states.