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.
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
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
This collection is compiled by the Ecological Distress Collective, hosted at SOAS Anthropology. Introduction In recent years, the medical and psychological scie... More
What Teaching Economics Taught Me about Teaching Anthropology
It's normal to be nervous before the first day of classes, especially if it's your first time teaching at a particular institution. It's especially normal to be... More
Abolitionist Pedagogies
What might it mean to seriously prioritize anti-carceral liberation from within anthropology classrooms? This is the question that inspired our “Abolitionist Pe... More
Paradoxical Recognition and Solidarity: An Interview with Fiori Berhane
In the following author interview, Fiori Berhane reflects on what she calls the “paradox of humanitarian recognition” among the Eritrean community she works wi... More
Grinding the Soul: An Interview with EuyRyung Jun
In her article “Grinding the Souls: Politics of Interspecies Pity and the Labor of Care in a South Korean Animal Shelter,” EuyRyung Jun explores the gendered dy... More
Eyes on Florida: Community-centered Anthropology in Tampa Bay
Recently, Tampa Bay has stoked controversy among U.S. anthropologists. Facing statewide rising fascism and oppressive laws targeting historically marginalized m... More
AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part Two: Anthropologists
The second episode of our two-part mini-series, showcases a roundtable discussion held at the 2023 American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) Annual meeting i... More
AAA 2023—Conversations with Harsha Walia, Part One: Migrant Workers
A discussion featuring Harsha Walia, alongside community organizers and migrant workers representing Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), took place at t... More