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.
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 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 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
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
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
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
A Space of Play: The Past and Future of the Contributing Editors Program
What follows is the transcript of a conversation that took place at the 2016 spring meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) between Cultural Anth... 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