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.
Teaching about Rape in Troubled Times
In the fall of 2016, we taught an introductory undergraduate anthropology course titled “Culture, Gender, and Violence” at the University of Virginia (UVA). Ric... More
AnthroPod presents The Familiar Strange: Designing Agency with Vijayendra Rao
The AnthroPod team is pleased to bring you a special crossover episode from the Australia-based blog and podcast The Familiar Strange. We aim to support other p... More
Bateson Book Forum: The Resonance of Unseen Things
In The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny, Susan Lepselter describes the affects and networked logics that ... More
Pedagogical Soundings: Hunter-Gatherer Studies
This installment of Pedagogical Soundings is a collaboration between the AnthroPod and Teaching Tools sections of the Cultural Anthropology website. It suppleme... More
AnthroBites: Hunter-Gatherer Research
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
Justice
We think we know what injustice feels like. We can identify moments in our own lives that felt like oppression, like the refusal of freedom, like a wrong. And w... More
Envisioning Theory: An Anthropological Teaching Experiment, Part Two
My previous post introduced “Envisioning Theory,” a teaching experiment in which students produced visualizations of scholarly texts. My co-teacher and I pursue... More
Envisioning Theory: An Anthropological Teaching Experiment, Part One
The idea for a learning and teaching experiment in envisioning theory came to me when I began to select texts for a theory seminar on the anthropology of the bo... More
Academic Precarity in American Anthropology: A Forum
If as many as 80 percent of doctoral students in cultural anthropology are not getting tenure-track jobs, then why are PhD programs in the United States almost ... More
Sketching Visual Anthropology: An Interview with Illustrator Judit Ferencz
In I Swear I Saw This, Michael Taussig (2011) chronicles his travels in Colombia through his mostly colorless drawings. He writes that he is “not much of a dr... More