Member Voices showcases the intellectual vitality of the SCA by featuring the work of its more than one thousand members, as well as archived content from discontinued Fieldsights sections. Submissions in a range of formats are welcome from current SCA members.
Gauging the Toll: Auto-reflexivity, Sexual Violence, and Fieldwork
In Letters from the Field, Margaret Mead (1977) wrote, “The way to do fieldwork is to never come up for air until it is all over.” This quotation demonstrates t... More
Bateson Book Forum: Animal Intimacies
Radhika Govindrajan's Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press, 2018) reconfigures relatedness as a... More
Ethnography is Key for Computer-to-Computer Communication that Enhances Veteran Experiences
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using ethnographic approaches to designing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that connect more than nine mill... 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
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
Social Distancing: A Multispecies Perspective
Social distancing is all the rage. As health officials from the WHO to the CDC actively promote it, this is a good moment to ask what cultural anthropologists c... More
Visualize-ing Air: Data, Icons, and Translations of Smog in Lahore
My city, Lahore, is disappearing. There is nothing figurative about that sentence. I genuinely cannot see my hometown outside my window. The skyline is a haze .... More
Redesigning the Annual Conference: Contagion, Carbon, Access, Equity
Spring is a time to look ahead in places like where I live on the East Coast of the United States, as people come out of doors and dormant plants and other crea... More
Rooftop “Recipes” for Relating: A Commentary on Recipes, Ethnography, and Theory
I titled my 2018 anthropology MA thesis for The American University in Cairo “Rooftop Recipes for Relating: Ecologies of Humans, Animals, and Life,” but it took... More
Co-authorship as Feminist Writing and Practice
This collection of essays builds on a 2018 American Anthropological Association roundtable that brought together scholars whose experiences with co-authorship i... More