Summer Scholar Talk with Amy Scott | Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, Portuguese, 1946-2006) is often recognized as a part of a breakout generation that emerged in the 1970s to challenge then-prolific assumptions about Indigenous art: that it was by definition "traditional," inward-looking, and incompatible with the accelerating pace of the western art world.
Summer Course with C. J. Alvarez | How has the natural world shaped human history in New Mexico? How have humans transformed the environment? Is there any escape from anthropocentrism? These are the core questions we will explore in this course. We will also see what happens when we take the discussion into the field; there will be a half-day excursion to a nearby field site.
Live Music | Join Lara Manzanares, Jordan Wax, and Tanya Nuñez as they take you on a deep journey of discovery through the historical back roads of Northern New Mexico. Learn about the complex crossroads between local cultures, share in the joyful and heartrending stories and melodies of those who came before us, and experience the evolution of tradition in real time through fresh original music and the re-imagining and recontextualization of historical tunes in English and Spanish.
Summer Scholar Juno Salazar Parreñas | Book Club | Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (2018).
Summer Scholar Talk | What does it mean to understand the United States not just as a nation born in revolution, but as one continuously shaped by Native law, power, and resistance? | Co-Presented with the New Mexico Military Museum and Foundation
Summer Course with Robert Weiner | This course explores the relationships between visual culture and religion, politics, intercultural interaction, and historical change in Chacoan society. We will investigate these issues from anthropological and art historical perspectives through a combination of lectures, discussions, and group visual analysis. We will visit Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque to consider changing relationships between image, cosmos, and society in Pueblo culture.
Juno Salazar Parreñas | Borneo and Bali never had rabies until both experienced outbreaks carried by dogs. Rabies, with its 96% fatality rate, has long highlighted social inequalities. In Latin America, rabies exemplifies social inequities between Indigenous and mestizo communities. In South Asia, it highlights disparities across caste and class. But in Indonesia and Malaysia, with its distinct religious and cultural pluralism, interventions against rabies highlight how religion and racialization matter in health interventions.
Emily Jones | Dogs have been an integral part of human societies around the world for tens of thousands of years, serving in roles as varied as hunting assistant, provider of wool, traction animal, village witch, and companion. In this talk, Jones will discuss some of the different roles held by dogs around the world from the Paleolithic through the present, and how these roles relate to both free-roaming village dogs and to the dog breeds familiar to us today.
Dan Flores | Like no other native animal, the coyote has been a charismatic character in the Pleistocene West, the Native West, and modern America. Coyotes have experienced a roller-coaster biography, seen as a sacred deity in one phase and a varmint meriting entire eradication in another. Now, an unfolding coyote epic of our time is the story of coyotes transferring their brand of American survival to a whole other continent -- South America, which they're on the verge of entering!