by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, Southwest
2007. Nancy Owen Lewis and Kay Leigh Hagan; Preface by James F. Brooks
This book brings to life the people, debates, conflicts, and creativity that make the School for Advanced Research an exciting and thought-provoking place to study, work, and create. It serves at once as the story of an exceptional institution and a fascinating history of anthropology and anthropology’s diverse cast of characters.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Resident Scholar, Southwest
2014. John A. Ware; foreword by Timothy Earle
This volume offers new perspectives on the pithouse to pueblo transition, Chaco phenomenon, evolution of Rio Grande moieties, Western Pueblo lineages and clans, Katsina cult, great kivas, dynamics of village aggregation in the late prehistoric period, and much more.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples
2004. Edited by John M.Watanabe and Edward F. Fischer
This volume brings together eight Maya specialists and a prominent anthropological theorist to assess the contrasting historical circumstances and emerging cultural futures of Maya in Mexico and Guatemala.
by operations | Aug 27, 2018 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Linguistics, Recently Published Titles, Southwest
2018. Edited by Peter M. Whitely
The contributors draw upon the insights of archaeology, ethnology, and linguistic anthropology to examine social history and practice, including kinship groups, ritual sodalities, architectural forms, economic exchange, environmental adaptation, and political order, as well as their patterns of transmission over time and space.
by operations | Aug 24, 2018 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles
2018. Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel
While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory.
by Sarah Soliz | Sep 3, 2019 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2019. Edited by Holly F. Mathews and Adriana M. Manago
The contributors to this volume draw upon field research and in-depth qualitative data from different parts of the world to explore the reasons for women’s varied psychological responses to patriarchy.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, General Anthropology, SAR Press
2013. Edited by Rodney Harrison, Sarah Byrne, and Anne Clarke
This volume considers the material networks and affective qualities of “things” alongside their representational role within the museum and explores the ways in which concepts of agency and indigeneity need to be reconfigured in light of the study of these concepts within the museum context.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, SAR Press
1970. Edited by William A. Longacre
The chapters in this book focus on methods and theories used to systematically test hypotheses about prehistoric social organization.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, SAR Press
1991. Edited by Richard G. Fox
The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today’s world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as “culture,” once had.
by Sarah Soliz | Feb 17, 2021 | Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Non-Series, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2021. Edited by John P. Hawkins
Drawing on over fifty years of research and data, the book argues that two factors—cultural collapse and systematic social and economic exclusion—explain the recent religious transformation of Maya Guatemala and the style and emotional intensity through which that transformation is expressed.