by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, General Anthropology
1977. Edited by James N. Hill
What is change? What is stability? How and why does each occur? Can they be predicted? The contributors discuss these questions and others about the nature of change through diverse case studies from Hawaii, Midwestern America, the American Southwest, Iran, and the Teotihuacan Valley in Mexico.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Biological Anthropology, SAR Press
2006. Edited by Kristen Hawkes and Richard R. Paine
This volume brings together specialists in hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology and demography, human growth, development, and nutrition, paleodemography, human paleontology, primatology, and the genomics of aging. The contributors identify and explain the peculiar features of human life histories, such as the rate and timing of processes that directly influence survival and reproduction.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, SAR Press
2010. Edited by Kevin J. Vaughn, Jelmer W. Eerkens, and John Kantner
This book, the product of an advanced seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), brings together the perspectives of cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to explore why and how leadership emerges and variously becomes institutionalized among disparate small-scale and middle-range human societies.
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.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Archaeology, SAR Press
1978. Edited by Richard A. Gould
The contributors to this book cover diverse societies and attempt to establish behavioral patterns from the study of what humans leave behind. The productive interaction between archaeology and ethnology demonstrates the effectiveness of ethnoarchaeological approaches in contexts from prehistoric to modern.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Applied Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, General Anthropology, Global Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Peoples, SAR Press
2016. ann-elise lewallen
The author synthesizes ethnographic field research, museum and archival research, and participation in cultural-revival and rights-based organizing to show how women craft Ainu and indigenous identities through clothwork and how they also fashion lived connections to ancestral values and lifestyles.
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 | Jul 24, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, Arroyo Hondo/Grand Canyon, SAR Press, Southwest
1984. Richard W. Lang and Arthur H. Harris
This fifth volume presents the results of faunal analysis from the Arroyo Hondo excavations, covering the topics of prehistoric vegetation and climate; the importance of various animals in the diet; seasonal hunting patterns; methods of butchering, skinning, and cooking; the prehistoric hunting territory; the raising of domesticated dogs and turkeys; and trade in animals and animal products.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Advanced Seminar, Cultural Anthropology, SAR Press
2008. Edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah DurhamTo address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look at the both the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in places as far apart as Oakland, California, and Tamatave, Madagascar, in situations as disparate as the idealization of childhood innocence and the brutal lives of street children.
by operations | Jul 24, 2017 | Ancient Americas, Archaeology, General Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples, Popular Archaeology, SAR Press
2015. Edited by Lynn H. Gamble
Some of the most complex hunter-gatherer societies on earth flourished along California’s rugged coastline, and this volume brings together an impressive group of experts to tell a story wrought in shell mounds, ancient fishhooks, buried villages, and rock paintings.