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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Syllabus Archive: Black Anthropology

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Syllabus Archive: Black Anthropology

This syllabus archive brings together a range of syllabi concerned with race and anthropology, with a particular focus on Blackness. Blackness is fundamental to... More

Writing Op-Eds in Anthropology Courses

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Writing Op-Eds in Anthropology Courses

In their guide to writing an op-ed, the Washington Post lists the goals that inform their decisions about which opinion pieces to publish. The last four bullet ... More

Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of Collaboration in a Pirating Ecosystem

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Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of Collaboration in a Pirating Ecosystem

Dread, followed by the drifting wonder of skillful multimodal ethnographic practice. Anthropologist Steffen Köhn’s and Cuban contemporary artist Nestor Siré’s d... More

Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High

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Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High

Mette High’s Cultural Anthropology article “Utopias of Oil: Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Ambition in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry” explores how private e... More

Writing and Teaching Life and Death: A Conversation with Anne Allison

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Writing and Teaching Life and Death: A Conversation with Anne Allison

In this conversation, Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University and Society for Cultural Anthropology past president, reflects on the ... More

The Text as Teacher: Against Reading as a Resource Relation

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The Text as Teacher: Against Reading as a Resource Relation

What can a text about anti-colonial science teach us about teaching anthropology? We started thinking together in early 2022 about how Max Liboiron’s book Poll... More

Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson

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Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson

In his article, “Evasion: Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro,” David C. Thompson focuses on evasion from prison custody in Brazilian... More

Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull

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Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull

Matthew S. Hull's article on the effects of bringing a corporate call center into the bureaucratic operations of the Punjab police offers a new perspective on t... More

Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic

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Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic

“Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic” was convened as a reading and workshop group of anthropologists with a commitment to poeti... More

Active Pedagogy, Collaborative Research, and Zine Making

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Active Pedagogy, Collaborative Research, and Zine Making

In a 2020 post, Gökçe Günel, Saiba Varma, and Chika Watanabe reflected on the fragmentation, precariousness, and new ways of being that unfolded during the pand... More