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.
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
Teaching Writing While Teaching Anthropology
On the first day of class, while students are combing through the syllabus, I often watch for their reactions as they look at the assignments for the course. Re... More
Playing Fieldwork: Digital Ethnography Today
In this episode, “Playing Fieldwork”—the first in a new series called Rewiring the Field—we explore how anthropologists are rethinking fieldwork in digital spac... More
These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency: An Interview with Cameron Hu
In this interview, Cameron Hu considers the entailments of modernity’s—and anthropology’s—insistence on historical contingency. What follows is a lightly edited... More
More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports
In this episode, we dive into college football by examining the lived experiences of Black players and their bodies through the lens of Black feminist thought, ... More
Sustaining Containability: A Conversation with Elana Resnick
In this interview, Elana Resnick reflects on the evolution of her research on recycling and waste in Bulgaria. She highlights the longer historical contexts sha... More
The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death
In this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-legal institutio... More
On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on pollution and toxicity... More