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.
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
Echos of Earthly Suffering in Transitional Justice: Revisiting the Soundings of Colombia's Truth Commission
As part of the 2016 landmark peace accord, the Colombian State launched a four-year “Comisión de la Verdad,” or Truth and Reconciliation Commission as known in ... More
Giving Students Feedback that Inspires
During one failed attempt to empty my university email inbox, I came across a few emails dating back to 2014, the year in which I changed my undergraduate major... More
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
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
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
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