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.
Patchwork Ethnography Syllabus
This post builds on A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography and Interview: Patchwork Ethnography posted on Fieldsights on June 2020 and June 2021, respectively. ... More
In the Weeds: Teaching Weedy Anthropology and an Interview with Caroline E. Schuster
For this supplementals post, Janita Van Dyk and Caroline E. Schuster created a sample syllabus, which includes discussion questions, pedagogical exercises, and ... More
The Sound of Borders Part 2: Active Citizenship
In part 2 of our series on sound and borders, cultural geographer Tom Western talks with contributing editor Nick Smith about the work of the Syrian and Greek Y... More
The Specter of Hobbes and Other White Men in African Anthropology
There is a well-established tradition of scholarly discourses that treats Africa as a natural laboratory against which European theories of modernity are tested... More
What Solidarity Does
This is the second episode in AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do. The aim of the series is to examine, from an anthropological perspective, how differe... More
Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia
Namita Vijay Dharia’s “Embodied Urbanisms” explores the metabolic nature of corruption discourse in the context of rapid real estate development in Gurugram, In... More
The Sound of Borders Part 1: Crossing
What kind of narrative space do migrants enter when they cross the border to the United States? And how does musical performances conjure up pockets of convivia... More
Teaching as Performance: On Scripts, Preparing for Classes, and Teaching with Passion
When I first started teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the American University in Cairo in 2018, I ran to one of my favorite mentors to share the excitin... More
What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance
This is the third episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series. In it Dr. Cassandra Hartblay, Dr. Greg Pierotti, and Dr. Cristiana Giordano join cont... More
The Syllabus is Political
Around the end of October, in the lead up to Halloween, I like to assign my introduction to cultural anthropology course a Jean and John Comaroff article about ... More