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.

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

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

Gaza is Berning: How Bernie Sanders Helps Us Look at and through Statistics from Israel/Palestine

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 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

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

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

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

#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