by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology
2012. Edited by Catherine M. Tucker
This book is about the complicated and provocative ways nature, science, and religion intersect in real settings where people attempt to live in harmony with the physical environment. Scholars of philosophy, religious studies, and science and technology have been at the forefront of critiquing the roles of religion and science in human interactions with the natural world.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, History/Social Sciences, Non-Series, SAR Press, Southwest
2010. David M. Brugge
Combining archaeological evidence with Navajo cultural precepts, Brugge has used the records of the oldest European institution in the American Southwest – the Catholic Church – to shed light on the practices, causes, and effects of Spanish, Mexican, and American occupation on the Navajo Nation.
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 | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Jane L. Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, & Brett Williams
Focusing on the United States, this volumes analyze how the globalization of newly untrammeled capitalism has exacerbated preexisting inequalities, how the retreat of the benevolent state and the rise of the punitive, imperial state are related, how neoliberal and neoconservative ideologies are melding, and how recurrent moral panics misrepresent class, race, gendered, and sexual realities on the ground.
by operations | Jul 25, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
1972. Edited by Alfonso Ortiz
This volume, the result of an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, takes a fresh look at Pueblo Indian culture, with chapters on everything from language to religion, prehistory, ecology, and from literature to music.
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.