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.
Fieldwork and the Native Informant: A Review of Culture at Large 2017
Fieldwork and the Native Informant Organizers: Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) and Zeynep Gürsel (Macalester College) Featured Guest: Gayatri Chak... More
Elements: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Elements Panelists: Daniel Fisher (University of California, Berkeley), Andrea Ballestero (Rice University), Liisa Malkki (Stanford University), Nikhil Anand (U... More
An Uncertain Rush of Energy: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
An Uncertain Rush of Energy: A Discussion with William Mazzarella on The Mana of Mass Society Chair: Bhrigupati Singh (Brown University)Panelists: Steven Caton ... More
Ex-Post-Facto? An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Ex-Post-Facto? The Anthropology of Media and Journalism in a Post-Truth Era Panelists: Robert Samet (Union College), Naomi Schiller (Brooklyn College, City Univ... More
From Ebola to Plague and Beyond: How Can Anthropologists Best Engage Past Experience to Prepare for New Epidemics?
In August 2017, a man who had recently traveled by shared taxi from the central highlands of Madagascar to Tamatave (via Antananarivo) died after a brief illnes... More
A Politics of Worldbuilding
Recently, political anthropologists and theorists have attempted to address two interrelated concerns. The first is a seemingly widespread lack of motivation fo... More
Settler Atmospherics
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
Caring as Chemo-Ethnographic Method
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
Chemical Youth: Chemical Mediations and Relations at Work
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
Reading Achille Mbembe in Indian Majoritarian Politics
In the 2014 Indian national elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the stewardship of Narendra Modi, returned to power with a comfortable majority. O... More