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.

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

On Roads: A Review Letter

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

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

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

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

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