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 | 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 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.
by operations | Jul 26, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Recently Published Titles
2017. Edited by Milford Bateman and Kate Maclean, foreword by James K. Galbraith
The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.
by Sarah Soliz | Apr 26, 2021 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press, Southwest
2021. Edited by Phillip B. Gonzales, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt
This volume situates a new phase of presidential politics in relation to what went before and asks what new political possibilities emerged from this dramatic chapter in our history.
by Sarah Soliz | Jan 23, 2020 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press, Southwest
2020. Edited by Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuire
The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world—in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders.