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School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience School for Advanced Research Annual Review 2006–2007 Review Annual Advanced Research School for Celebrating a Century SAR School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience PO Box 2188 · Santa Fe, NM 87504-2188 · 505-954-7200 · FAX 505-989-9809 · E-mail: [email protected] · www.sarweb.org Annual Review 2006–2007 SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH on the Human Experience ANNUAL REVIEW Creativity and Research at SAR The School for Advanced Research gratefully acknowledges the very generous support of the Paloheimo Foundation for publication of this report. The Foundation’s grant honors the late Leonora Paloheimo and her mother, Leonora Curtin, who served on the Board of Managers of the School from 1933 to 1972. Contents President’s Message: A Century Past, A Century Ahead Barbara Rose Johnston: Cold War Crimes 31 James F. Brooks 4 Short Seminar: Global Health in the Time of Violence 32 Short Seminar: Ecologies of Hope 32 Religion, Spirituality, and Public Life New SSRC–SAR Initiative: Religious, Spiritual, Secular 8 Causes and Consequences Short Seminar: Religion and Social Conscience in the Global Age 8 Advanced Seminar: The Emergence of Leadership 34 Julie Velásquez Runk: Cosmos and Conservation in Conflict 9 Advanced Seminar: Putting Aegean States in Context 35 Erica Bornstein: The Orphan 10 Advanced Seminar: Soils, Dryland Agriculture, and Social Complexity Graham St John: Global Tribe 11 in Ancient Hawai‘i 36 Sylvia Rodríguez, Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place 12 Timothy A. Kohler and Sander E. van der Leeuw, eds., Short Seminar: American Indian Artists in Recovery 13 Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems 37 Advanced Seminar Book: The Evolution of Human Life History 37 Indigenous Politics and Identity Advanced Seminar: The Shape of Script 38 Mateo Romero, Painting the Underworld Sky 16 Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler, eds., Beyond Red Power 17 Extending the Mission SAR Press: Global Indigenous Politics Series 17 SAR Sparks 40 Charles R. Hale, Más que un indio 18 Membership Lecture Series 41 Short Seminar: Marketing Maria 18 Member Field Trips 42 Connie, David, and Wayne Gaussoin, Cynthia Chavez Joins IARC 43 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellows 19 New Accessions Enhance IARC Collections 43 Geneva Shabi, Sallie R. Wagner Indigenous American Artist/Scholar 20 Stephen Trimble: Talking with the Clay 44 Jason Garcia, Ronald and Susan Dubin Native American Artist Fellow 21 Native Arts Forum 44 Noenoe Silva: Indigenous Hawai‘ian Intellectual History 22 Dorothy Grant, Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow 23 Ongoing Scholarship Colloquium Series 46 Globalization and the State Campus Scholarship 48 Eric J. Haanstad: Constructing State Order 26 Summer Scholars 50 Short Seminar: The Anthropology of Military and National Security Organizations 27 In Memoriam 51 J. I. Staley Prize: Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs 28 Advanced Seminar Book: Imperial Formations 28 Administration 52 Aneesh Aneesh: Imperial Neutrality 29 Barbara Rose Johnston, ed., Half-Lives and Half-Truths 30 Summary Financial Statement 55 3 President’s Message A Century Past, A Century Ahead As evening thunderheads rolled over the bell tower, New Mexico state historian, With reflection and celebration, we have devoted much of the past year to 1999–2000 Katrin H. Lamon resident scholar, and SAR board member Estevan marking the School’s centennial in ways that recognize our achievements since Rael-Gálvez accepted my invitation to provide opening remarks before SAR’s 1907 while setting our eyes on goals that will allow us to share more deeply and commemorative 100th birthday dinner. In words at once poignant and thought widely knowledge of human culture, evolution, history, and creative expression. provoking, he reminded the assembled guests that an institution revered for its place in the rise of American archaeology might, itself, someday lie buried by time and history.Yet, even in ruins it might offer illumination and inspiration to a thinker in the distant future. Using as a metaphor the fifteenth-century glaze-ware bowl with which archaeologist Linda Cordell had illuminated a field trip to Pecos National Historic Park the day before, Rael-Gálvez pointed out that SAR had long served as a vessel for the blending of divergent ideas and their manifestation as new forms of thought and artistry. Not all compositions thus stirred at 660 Garcia Street have yielded perfect results, but we take pride in the fact that so many have found acceptance and occasionally even acclaim. The School’s successes and failures in its endeavors over the last century receive full treatment in A Peculiar Alchemy: A Centennial History of SAR, written by Nancy Owen Lewis and Kay Leigh Hagan. From its uncertain beginnings as the School of American Archaeol- ogy through its flowering as the School of American Research under the leadership of Douglas W. Schwartz, SAR gained a place of distinction in the constellation of research centers. Now, as the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience, we continue to serve as a crucible in which scholars and artists may make unexpected connections that lead to unforeseeable advances in our comprehension of the human past, present, and future. The Celebrating a Century Artists’ Market event in May 4 Opening our mission to the larger com- 7–12 to explore the many, sometimes munity is among those goals, and over the mutually conflicting stories that diverse weekend of May 18 and 19, 2007, we peoples have used to make sense of hosted some 60 artist alumni and nearly themselves and the region.A brief visit 600 guests for “SAR Celebrates a Century,” to the website will, I hope, confirm that a cornucopia of arts, history, architecture, it reflects the best of SAR’s tradition of stories, and fellowship. Legendary artists independent thinking. such as Lonnie Vigil and Michael Bird In a different vein, we have reached Romero shared booths next to rising out through the political process to figures such as Jason Garcia and Geneva further the potential of the Galisteo Shabi. Docents led visitors on insightful Basin Archaeological Protection Act of tours of the campus. In the board room, 2004. This landmark legislation, aimed at storytellers Shonto Begay and Raouf Mama protecting, preserving, and interpreting held spellbound adults and children alike. for the public 24 ancestral Pueblo Storyteller Raouf Mama Good food abounded, and the just pub- villages southeast of Santa Fe, will, if lished Sustaining Thought: Thirty Years of Cook- fully implemented, become a twenty- ery at SAR, by Guest Services manager Leslie Shipman, moved briskly out of the first-century model for best practices SAR Press sales booth. SAR staff pitched in avidly and expressed enthusiasm for in collaborations between archaeolo- similar, smaller-scale events in future years. gists, historians, land managers, and Yet, our intimate campus cannot begin to descendant Native communities. Over embrace the world we wish to reach, nor the past year we worked with partners would we want to disturb the ambient mix in the Bureau of Land Management, the Computer page from Southwest Crossroads of creativity and research that it has so long National Park Service, the State Land nurtured. Consequently, new forms of out- Office, Santa Fe County, the Archaeological Conservancy, and the northern pueblos reach now dominate our thinking. This year to secure first-time funding for site assessment inventories across the breadth of saw the launch of our free public-education the Galisteo Basin. website, Southwest Crossroads: Cultures and We are taking to heart Rael-Gálvez’s caution not to walk into the new Histories of the American Southwest century with our gaze focused on the century past. SAR is rich in the wisdom (www.southwestcrossroads.org). This dy- of experience and equally so in the energy of unbound imaginations. I am grateful namic, interactive learning matrix of original for the honor of having served the School during this intensely meaningful texts, poems, fiction, maps, paintings, photo- moment in its evolution. graphs, oral histories, and films allows thou- sands of teachers and students in grades 5 The Vessel of SAR Each year, the work we support at SAR clusters—sometimes intentionally, other INDIAN ARTS RESEARCH CENTER times by fortuitous accident—into related themes and mutually sustaining Each year, the Indian Arts Research Center fellowship program provides several communities of thought and expression. Looking back over 2006–2007, we see three-month residencies and one six-month residency to Native American four overarching interests that organized our days: Religion, Spirituality, and Public artists. These fellowships ensure the year-round presence of Native artists on Life; Indigenous Politics and Identity; Globalization and the State; and Complex the SAR campus. IARC offers lectures, demonstrations, and films to stimulate Causes and Consequences in Human Biocultural Diversity. In many cases these dialogue and deepen understanding about the cultures represented in its combined with our internal efforts to Extend our Mission to new constituencies. extraordinary collection. The Annual Review strives to capture this phenomenon by intermixing the J. I. STALEY PRIZE programs of the Indian Arts Research Center, Scholar Programs, Staley Prize, For eighteen years the J. I. Staley Prize has been awarded to a living author for SAR Press, and SAR Membership to suggest the riches that result as we proceed a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. It to connect research and creativity in a distinctive school of knowledge. recognizes innovative works that go beyond traditional frontiers and dominant schools of thought in anthropology and add new dimensions to our understand- RESIDENT SCHOLAR PROGRAM ing of the human species. Initiated in 1973 with a single fellowship supported by the Weatherhead Foundation, the Resident Scholar Program has hosted 173 scholars. Fellows are awarded SAR PRESS support (including housing and a stipend) for a nine-month writing sabbatical.