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.
Ethnocine
We welcome you back to the Screening Room series. What does decolonial and intersectional feminism as a filmmaking practice look, sound, and feel like? What can... More
Bateson Book Forum: Animal Intimacies
Radhika Govindrajan's Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas (University of Chicago Press, 2018) reconfigures relatedness as a... More
Ethnography is Key for Computer-to-Computer Communication that Enhances Veteran Experiences
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is using ethnographic approaches to designing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that connect more than nine mill... More
Becoming Sensor in the Planthroposcene: An Interview with Natasha Myers
Situated at the intersection of anthropology, art, ecology, and activism, Becoming Sensor is a research-creation collaboration between filmmaker and dancer Ayel... More
Syllabus Archive: Critical Ethnographies
What is ethnography, and how do we teach about ethnography/ethnographies so that students understand the complexity of analysis? There have been many scholars w... More
Syllabus Archive Project: An Introduction
As someone newly immersed in a university teaching environment after shedding my role as a graduate student, I was excited, yet unsure of how to approach design... More
Curing the Curio: On Montezemolo's Metalogues, Biocartography, and Mi-lieus
We’ve curated three works by the artist and anthropologist Fiamma Montezemolo into our Con-text-ure archive. As an exemplar of the soft methodological space bet... More
Anthropology and/of Mental Health Pt. 2
The “Anthropology and/of Mental Health” series is a two-part exploration of anthropologists' experiences with mental health. In this episode, Anar expands the c... More
Jawn Theory
I dedicate this to Islan Nettles, Dominique “Rem'mie” Fells, Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau, and to every jawn, Black femme, trans and queer sibling, woman, and girl ... More
A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography
Even prior to the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, “traditional” anthropological fieldwork was in trouble. For some time now, ethnographers have been questioni... More