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.
Teaching Storytelling and Financial Crisis
Summary Each author in the Openings and Retrospectives collection, "After 2008," published in the November 2008 issue of Cultural Anthropology tells a particula... More
Forum: Culture at Large 2018 with Robin Kelley
At the 2018 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Anthropology's signature Culture at Large session honored the work of hi... More
Inverting a Sense of Home: Review of Evicted Exhibition
The glass doors to the Evicted exhibition at the National Building Museum open to a wall of eviction notices. The pink sheets of paper inform tenants that they ... More
Refusal and Resurgence: A Review of Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Jeremy Dutcher’s captivating Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (2018), winner of Canada’s prestigious Polaris Music Prize as well as a Juno Award, is the debut album o... More
What is Finance? A Conversation with Keith Hart, Daromir Rudnyckyj, and Caitlin Zaloom
Jen Hughes and Tariq Rahman: Collectively, these essays span vastly different parts of the world. However, one of the concepts that holds them together is finan... More
Playful Pedagogy: Teaching Culture with the Small-Penis Emoji
Sitting down to write my first lecture for an interdisciplinary first-year course I'd been assigned, I stare blankly at its title—Cultures and Diversity—trying ... More
Cashlessness: A Look at Life on the Margins of a Digitalizing Economy
In this episode of AnthroPod, guest producers Camilla Ida Ravnbøl and Marie Kolling explore the impact that the global trend towards digitalizing economies has ... More
Thinking through Medical Aid-in-Dying with Anita Hannig
This post is meant to be read alongside Anita Hannig’s article Author(iz)ing Death: Medical Aid-in-Dying and the Morality of Suicide published in the February 2... More
Book Forum: The Blind Man
And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, And if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.–Maurice Blanchot Robert Desja... More
What is a Classroom For? Teaching the Anthropology of Palestine
Arrivals As a college professor, I consider the classroom to be a site of engagement, activism, and learning, not just for my students, but also for myself. Ove... More