Contributed Content

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.

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Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to the relevant section editor.

Teaching about Rape in Troubled Times

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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