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.

How to Submit

View the submission guidelines. Please email Member Voices Section Editor Janita Van Dyk at [email protected] with any questions. Authors must be current members of the SCA.

It Can’t Be Revolution: An Interview with Tania Li

It Can’t Be Revolution: An Interview with Tania Li

What can anthropology add to the larger complex of forces that bring about social change? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of an interview between co... More

The Banality of the Anthropocene

The Banality of the Anthropocene

I want to propose an Anthropocene territorialization and a subject-making project in which anthropologists might want to engage. The territory of which I write ... More

Science and the Senses

Science and the Senses

Scientific inquiry eschews and embraces sensory experience. Yet sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and movement all inform scientific work. Across disciplines, ... More

On the Travel Ban: An Interview with Darryl Li

On the Travel Ban: An Interview with Darryl Li

On Friday, January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that temporarily bars the entry of refugees into the United States and bans citizens of ... More

What Are You Reading? Responses to the Election and Inauguration

What Are You Reading? Responses to the Election and Inauguration

Like many anthropologists, we responded to this postelection moment by turning to books. But confronted by the long lists of readings in crowdsourced syllabi, w... More

Environmental Data, Guerrilla Archiving, and the Trump Transition

Environmental Data, Guerrilla Archiving, and the Trump Transition

Many of Donald Trump’s disinformation tactics go in two related directions: grandiose promises to rally his base, and trolling or decoy statements meant to inci... More

Engaging with Inequality and Affective States: A Review of Culture at Large 2016

Engaging with Inequality and Affective States: A Review of Culture at Large 2016

Engaging with Inequality and Affective States Organizer: Laura Bear (London School of Economics) Featured Guest: Javier Auyero (University of Texas at Austin) D... More

The Chemical Refrain: An #AmAnth2016 Panel Review

The Chemical Refrain: An #AmAnth2016 Panel Review

The Chemical RefrainChair: Eben Kirksey (University of New South Wales). Presenters: Nicholas Shapiro (Chemical Heritage Foundation), Jason Pine (Purchase Colle... More

The Shattered Echo Chamber: Experiences of #AmAnth2016 in the Wake of the Election

The Shattered Echo Chamber: Experiences of #AmAnth2016 in the Wake of the Election

As anthropologists convened for the 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, just one week after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential ... More

Just an Anthropologist? An Interview with Esther Newton

Just an Anthropologist? An Interview with Esther Newton

The following interview, which was conducted by Sebastian Mohr (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University), took place in Esther Newton’s office at the Univ... More