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.
On Roads: A Review Letter
Munich, January 2016 Dear Penny and Hannah, We recently had the pleasure of reading your new book Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. The oc... More
Collaboration
collaboration, n. Pronunciation: /kəˌlabəˈreɪʃən/ Etymology: noun of action, < Latin collabōrāre to collaborate v.: probably immediately < French. 1. Uni... More
Teaching Race
Anthropologists have been grappling with race since the beginning of the discipline, and we have not kept quiet about it. From Franz Boas’s early critiques of t... More
Bateson Book Forum: Behold the Black Caiman
In their commentary on Lucas Bessire’s Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life, the winner of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s 2015 Gregory B... More
Gaza is Berning: How Bernie Sanders Helps Us Look at and through Statistics from Israel/Palestine
On April 1, 2016, Bernie Sanders gave the editorial board of the New York Daily News an interview that included one of the most controversial moments of his cam... More
Design and Temporality
Design is the keyword for this month’s session of Correspondences. As a verb and a nominal, design can refer to the practices that humans employ to arrange, eng... More
Ethnography
Ethnography, according to Tim Ingold (2014, 383), “has become a term so overused, both in anthropology and in contingent disciplines, that it has lost much of i... More
Enough about Ethnography: An Interview with Tim Ingold
The Summer 2014 issue of HAU included the article “That’s Enough about Ethnography!”, by Tim Ingold, who is Chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Ab... More
The Internet
The Internet is a ubiquitous part of contemporary life, yet conceptually it is impalpable and defies easy definition. For those less technically literate, its m... More
#YallQaeda and #YeeHawd: A Ranchers’ Rebellion in the Age of Terrorism
For many it may be a bright new year, but for antigovernment protesters the long holiday weekend was an opportunity to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refu... More