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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The "Marcha a Lima" against the Denial of Modern Political Rights
Pedro Castillo, a rural school teacher, was sworn in as President of Peru on July 28, 2021; his victory built on solid electoral support from Andean Indigenous ... More
Plantationocene
In what ways does the Plantationocene offer an analytic for specifying a planetary condition? Driven by this question, this collection of short essays provides... More
HandsOn: Touching the Digital Planet
HandsOn is about the extraordinary ways our fingers and hands sense, guide, and grip our digital world. In this series we examine the tensions and connections b... 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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Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull
Matthew S. Hull's article on the effects of bringing a corporate call center into the bureaucratic operations of the Punjab police offers a new perspective on t... More
Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic
“Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic” was convened as a reading and workshop group of anthropologists with a commitment to poeti... More
Active Pedagogy, Collaborative Research, and Zine Making
In a 2020 post, Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma, and Chika Watanabe reflected on the fragmentation, precariousness, and new ways of being that unfolded during the pand... 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.
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