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.
Becoming Sensor in the Planthroposcene: An Interview with Natasha Myers
Situated at the intersection of anthropology, art, ecology, and activism, Becoming Sensor is a research-creation collaboration between filmmaker and dancer Ayel... More
Syllabus Archive: Critical Ethnographies
What is ethnography, and how do we teach about ethnography/ethnographies so that students understand the complexity of analysis? There have been many scholars w... More
Syllabus Archive Project: An Introduction
As someone newly immersed in a university teaching environment after shedding my role as a graduate student, I was excited, yet unsure of how to approach design... More
Curing the Curio: On Montezemolo's Metalogues, Biocartography, and Mi-lieus
We’ve curated three works by the artist and anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo into our Con-text-ure archive. As an exemplar of the soft methodological space bet... More
Anthropology and/of Mental Health Pt. 2
The “Anthropology and/of Mental Health” series is a two-part exploration of anthropologists' experiences with mental health. In this episode, Anar expands the c... More
Jawn Theory
I dedicate this to Islan Nettles, Dominique “Rem'mie” Fells, Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, and to every jawn, Black femme, trans and queer sibling, woman, and girl ... More
A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography
Even prior to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, “traditional” anthropological fieldwork was in trouble. For some time now, ethnographers have been questioni... More
Book Forum: A Possible Anthropology
This book forum invites a group of anthropologists to reckon with Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke University Press, 2019... More
"Narcolombia"
Part of the Narcoaesthetics project developing at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, X. Andrade and Esteban Borrero’s “Narcolombia” is a series of... More
Assimilation, Dispossession, Erasure, or Refusal
As we reach the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century, Adivasi lives in India, whether the mainland or Andaman Islands, challenge us to rethink o... More