Fieldsights

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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Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America

Theorizing the Contemporary

Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America

This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a time where fact... More

Substitution

Theorizing the Contemporary

Substitution

Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for granted as a natural ... More

Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return, continued

Hot Spots

Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return, continued

This is a continuation of the series, Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return, published on October 31. The essays in this series were written d... 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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The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints

Teaching Tools

The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints

When I wrote an email thanking my mentor for her guidance as I applied to graduate school, she replied with a note of acknowledgement, but ended with the reques... More

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

Supplementals

The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin

Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More

Teaching Ecological Distress

Teaching Tools

Teaching Ecological Distress

This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psychological scie... 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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