Launched in 2012, Fieldsights has helped to catalyze the growth of nonjournal digital publishing in anthropology. Today, its various sections address diverse audiences in both textual and nontextual formats.
Fieldsights posts should not be described as “published in Cultural Anthropology.” The two publications have different tempos, review processes, and forms of credit associated with their output.
Editors’ Forum
These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
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On and Off the Record: Ethnographic Witnessing and Accompaniment in Immigration Court
This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and collaborative doc... More
Futurismos amazónicos: Imaginarios más allá de lo humano
El dossier tiene como punto de partida la noción de futuro para ser pensada y problematizada desde diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos que se orientan ... More
Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology
These essays confront the climate crisis, and the conceptions of humanity it evokes, through the histories of environmental anthropology itself. Over time, conc... More
Contributed Content
While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. Many of them are written by early-career scholars in the SCA’s Contributing Editors Program.
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AAA 2025 Part 2: Race across Borders
This is the second of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Throughout this minis... More
A Better World Somewhere: Thinking with and about Keith Hart
Few anthropological concepts have traveled as far as Keith Hart’s “informal economy,” which altered the course of development economics in the 1970s. He once re... More
Comfort and Community in Teaching Anthropology Online
Like many educators, the first experience of online teaching came several days after a nationwide COVID lockdown was announced in early 2020. I was teaching hig... More
Collaboration Studio
The Collaboration Studio draws together content previously published in different sections of Fieldsights. It also anchors a yearlong seminar that allows Contributing Editors to work together for a fixed period of time on a topic of shared interest. Currently, the Archive of these Studios can be found under Fieldsights, “Collaborative Topics (Archive).”
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