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.
Bateson Book Forum: The Resonance of Unseen Things
In The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny, Susan Lepselter describes the affects and networked logics that ... More
Justice
We think we know what injustice feels like. We can identify moments in our own lives that felt like oppression, like the refusal of freedom, like a wrong. And w... More
Academic Precarity in American Anthropology: A Forum
If as many as 80 percent of doctoral students in cultural anthropology are not getting tenure-track jobs, then why are PhD programs in the United States almost ... More
Images
Many anthropologists drawn to experimental forms of ethnography have gravitated toward images as method. Lisa Stevenson (2014, 10) has proposed an “anthropology... More
A Tiger’s Leap into the Past: An Interview with Anand Vivek Taneja
Anand Vivek Taneja’s recently published book Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi speaks of lives in conversation with... More
Producing Pleasure: Emotional Labor and Substance Use in Brooklyn’s Queer Nightlife
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Microdosing at Work: Reworking Bodies and Chemicals
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Armed with Red Lipstick
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Anthropology and Undergraduate Desire: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Anthropology and Undergraduate Desire Panelists: Richard Handler (University of Virginia), Lee Baker (Duke University), Charlie Piot (Duke University), Alexand... More
Unfinished: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming Panelists: João Biehl (Princeton University), Peter Locke (Northwestern University), Angela Garcia (Stanford Universit... More