Member Voices showcases the intellectual vitality of the SCA by featuring the work of its members, as well as archived content from discontinued Fieldsights sections. We publish short pieces which engage contemporary disciplinary conversations within anthropology. We welcome submissions which put current events in conversation with anthropological thought and literature. We encourage creativity and collaboration, aiming to create a forum which propels the discipline in new and exciting directions.
Publishing Otherwise
Earlier this summer, the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) announced my appointment as the next managing editor of Cultural Anthropology. As an anthropolo... More
Fat
Susan Greenhalgh, Jessica Hardin, Harris Solomon, and Michael Montoya contribute to this Field Notes series on fat.... More
Writing/Power/Story: Why and How to Do Ethnography of Nonhuman Beings and Things
Why study nonhuman beings and things? For physical anthropologists, there is no doubt that studying nonhuman things is an essential route to making sense of the... More
Illegality
This month’s Field Notes series asks four contributors to reflect on the anthropological interest in illegality. Traditional anthropological studies approache... More
Activism
For decades now, the field of anthropology has produced a vast amount of scholarship on social movements and protest, providing unique insights into the dynam... More
Field of Difference: Limitations of the Political in Ontological Anthropology
Ontological anthropologists have moved beyond reflexive anthropology because they are fully aware and intentionally involved in choosing which analytic they use... More
The Form of the Otherwise
A quiet question was raised at the end of the roundtable on “The Politics of Ontology” about where writing fit into the discussion. The absence of the topic was... More
Care
This month, Field Notes invites four scholars to consider the theme of care. What has anthropology contributed to the study of care? What does it provoke? How d... More
The Ontological Spin
This post is a distilled version of a longer essay, published in American Ethnologist as "Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique." The latest sal... More
"Otherwise Anthropology" Otherwise: The View from Technology
Recent thinking on the politics of ontology invites commentary on the ontological sensibility of what Elizabeth Povinelli (2011) calls “an anthropology of the o... More