While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. Many of them are written by early-career scholars in the SCA's Contributing Editors Program.
Crafting the State: An Interview with José Ciro Martínez and Omar Sirri
In their article, “Bureaucraft: Statemakers in Amman and Baghdad,” José Ciro Martínez and Omar Sirri explore how the state comes into being through the skilled ... More
What New Media Does
In our latest episode in the series “What Concepts Do,” we welcome guest producer Nazlı Özkan, who leads us through a discussion of New Media. How has newness b... More
Astro-Colonialism: Conversation with Willi Lempert
In this episode, Dr. Willi Lempert discusses anthropology of outer space, focusing on historical and ongoing forms of colonialism on and off of Earth, as well a... More
The Political Statement: Thinking Beyond the End-of-Term Paper
This past Fall, while serving as faculty instructor (Alyssa) and graduate student instructor (Felipe) for an introductory course in socio-cultural anthropology,... More
AnthroBites: Disability
AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, and breaks i... More
Editorializing the Classroom: Teaching Collaboratively in the Digital Age
Following the Covid-19 pandemic, educators and students were faced with the precarity of a post-Covid, post-Zoom classroom and are now tasked with answering the... More
Decolonizing Ethnography: A Reimagined Framework for Teaching Radical Ethnography
“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all... More
Relating, Refusing, and Archiving Otherwise
This series takes Judith Butler’s contention that “the photograph is not merely a visual image awaiting interpretation” but rather “itself actively interpreting... More
The Fraying of Community: An Interview with Ashwak Sam Hauter
Ashwak Sam Hauter’s “Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen” explores the psycho-spiritual dimensions of health and medicin... More
Being @CulAnth: Social Media as Academic Practice
What does doing academia in general and anthropology in particular look like on social media? Each piece in this series works to answer this question by taking ... More
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