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.
“For He Will Kill You with His Horrible Sight”: Compiling the Belarus Political Book of Beasts
In 2020, following Alexander Lukashenko’s claim of a landslide victory in presidential elections, Belarus witnessed the most massive protests in its modern hist... More
Writing Op-Eds in Anthropology Courses
In their guide to writing an op-ed, the Washington Post lists the goals that inform their decisions about which opinion pieces to publish. The last four bullet ... More
Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of Collaboration in a Pirating Ecosystem
Dread, followed by the drifting wonder of skillful multimodal ethnographic practice. Anthropologist Steffen Köhn’s and Cuban contemporary artist Nestor Siré’s d... More
Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High
Mette High’s Cultural Anthropology article “Utopias of Oil: Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Ambition in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry” explores how private e... More
Writing and Teaching Life and Death: A Conversation with Anne Allison
In this conversation, Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and Society for Cultural Anthropology past president, reflects on the ... More
The Text as Teacher: Against Reading as a Resource Relation
What can a text about anti-colonial science teach us about teaching anthropology? We started thinking together in early 2022 about how Max Liboiron’s book Poll... More
Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson
In his article, “Evasion: Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro,” David C. Thompson focuses on evasion from prison custody in Brazilian... More
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