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.
Circling Up—In the Classroom
This post considers what anthropological educators committed to abolition can learn from a community-based liberatory curriculum called Telpochcalli. Telpochcal... More
Abolitionist Pedagogies: Introduction to the Series
This week, just after International Prisoners’ Justice Day, we take this opportunity to introduce a series that will be coming out over the course of the 2024–2... More
Anthropology and Algorithms
In recent years, developments around algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked widespread interest and debate. But anthropologists have been expl... More
The Environmental Wayfarer Project: Problem Solving with an Eco-Anxious Generation
Many environmental problems in the twenty-first century seem practically unsolvable—pollution, corporate monopolies, climate change. Part of our responsibility,... More
Gaining Voice through Injury: An Interview with Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Iván Sandoval-Cervantes’s “Gaining Voice through Injury: Voice and Corporeality in Animal Rights Activism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico” explores the relationship be... More
Learning to Teach
With my first teaching appointment in 2017, I moved to Richmond, a new town where I didn’t know anyone. Almost as soon as I got there, I enrolled in the YMCA sw... More
Pedagogies for a Particular Time
As a teaching assistant and a resident advisor (RA) in an undergraduate dorm, many of my conversations on campus have focused on how students and educators are ... More
Sounds of the Margins: Podcasting as Alternative Archives
In this episode, fellow podcasters and anthropologists, Frankie Younger and Dr. Anthony Jerry, share with us how they combined podcasting with community engagem... More
Haptic Encounters of the Extrajudicial Kind: A Review Forum on the Photo-Book "Sin Cesar"
Laura and I scramble to find a quiet place to talk in Bogotá's busy colonial downtown, La Candelaria. Sunlight barely bursts out through the thick, rain-laden, ... More
“Decanonization” as a Spiral: Collectively Constructing a “History of Anthropological Thought” Syllabus
The authors of this piece together compose the Brandeis “History of Anthropological Thought” Syllabus Collective. * * * “We say the Earth has a circular orb... More