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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Capture, Connect, Shift
This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective under the director... More
Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care
The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated attunement or e... More
Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. It does so by 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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Bringing Lessons from Protest to the Classroom
June 23, 2024, was a sweltering hot 96-degree Sunday during a heat wave in New York City. I made my way to “A ‘Pride’ Protest,” an action organized by a coaliti... More
Thinking Through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today
In this guest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr ask what collaboration in anthropology really looks like and who gets to shape it. In this... More
Beginning in the Middle: Teaching Theory as Orientation
A familiar professional experience: You slip into a talk already underway. You missed the opening and a good chunk of the argument or important evidence. The sp... 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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