In addition to canceling, postponing, or livestreaming our in-person public programs until April 30, we have reluctantly decided to close the SAR campus to the public until further notice.
We understand that your mailboxes are flooded with messages about responses to Covid-19 and it can seem overwhelming. But now is a good time to reflect and find new ways to engage with one another. So we can’t engage in-person? Let’s connect from home. Here are several ways you can continue to be part of the SAR community from afar.
Lisa Stevenson’s Life Beside Itself examines two historical moments among the Inuit of northern Canada: a tuberculosis epidemic in the mid-twentieth century and an epidemic of suicides among Inuit youth today. Through richly textured analysis, Stevenson shows how suicide prevention programs disregard what makes life worthwhile to Inuit people. Life Beside Itself deftly weaves together ethnography, archival voice recordings, and images to raise new questions about life, death, and care.
With his family and community, SAR mourns the passing of William Y. Adams, who died on August 22, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky, at the age of ninety-two.
Cities are shaped as much by paper and rubber stamps as they are by bricks and mortar, argues Matthew Hull in Government of Paper. By tracing the unexpected ways in which documents travel, he exposes the secret life of paper that profoundly shapes the built landscape of the planned city of Islamabad, and more broadly, gives us new ways of understanding bureaucracy on a global scale.
Earlier this month, the American Anthropological Association hosted the 117th annual meeting in San Jose, California. For many, the gathering is a five-day whirlwind of presentations, panels, committee meetings, awards, and social gatherings. Among the 6,000 anthropologists and related professionals in attendance, there were hundreds of SAR alumni.
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE Join SAR’s director of scholar programs, Paul Ryer, for an in-depth exploration of the continued legacy of SAR’s renowned scholar programs. During this informal conversation, Paul will also talk about[...]
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE Join the editor of The House of the Cylinder Jars (UNM Press 2020) Patricia Crown (SAR’s 2019 Weatherhead fellow), along with book contributors Hannah Mattson, Cyler Conrad, and Jacque Kocer,[...]
President’s Circle Virtual Happy Hour “An Insider’s Perspective on Native Americans in Politics and Law” with June Lorenzo As members of the President’s Circle, Founders’ Society, and Legacy Circle, you are cordially invited to attend[...]
REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT HERE Join author Douglas Preston and biological anthropologist, Agustín Fuentes, for a conversation about the recent study of human remains found at Roopkund, a lake high in India’s Himalayan mountain range. The[...]
President’s Circle Virtual Happy Hour “Veterans for Peace” with Michael Messner As members of the President’s Circle, Founders’ Society, and Legacy Circle, you are cordially invited to attend a Virtual Happy Hour with President Michael[...]
