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 Sarah Soliz | Jul 9, 2020 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2020. Edited by Anna L. Boozer, Bleda S. Düring, and Bradley J. Parker
This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.
by operations | Oct 16, 2018 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, General Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Popular Archaeology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press, Southwest
2018. Edited by Paul F. Reed and Gary M. Brown
Often overshadowed by the Ancestral Pueblo centers at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, the Middle San Juan is one of the most dynamic territories in the pre-Hispanic Southwest, interacting with Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde as well as the surrounding regions.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, Recently Published Titles
2017. Edited by Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean
Crumpled Paper Boat engages writing as a creative process of encounter, a way of making and unmaking worlds, and a material practice no less participatory and dynamic than fieldwork itself.
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 | Oct 16, 2018 | Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Linguistics, Recently Published Titles, Resident Scholar, SAR Press
2018. Christopher Ball
Showing ritual as a contributing factor to relationships of development and the politics of indigeneity, Exchanging Words asks how discourse, ritual, and exchange come together to mediate social relations close to home and on a global scale.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2017. Edited by Eileen P. Anderson-Fye and Alexandra Brewis
Fat Planet represents a collaborative effort to consider at a global scale what fat stigma is and what it does to people.
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 Sarah Soliz | Aug 14, 2019 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press
2019. Edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette
The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.