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.

Editorializing the Classroom: Teaching Collaboratively in the Digital Age

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Editorializing the Classroom: Teaching Collaboratively in the Digital Age

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, educators and students were faced with the precarity of a post-Covid, post-Zoom classroom and are now tasked with answering the... More

Decolonizing Ethnography: A Reimagined Framework for Teaching Radical Ethnography

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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

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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

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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

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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

Visual and New Media Review

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

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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

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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