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.
Creating Community in an Asynchronous Online Class
In the summer of 2020, we faced a challenge (one of many collectively shared): what to do with our general education Introduction to Cultural Anthropology class... More
A Complement to the Syllabus Archive: Primiano, Krishnan, and Sangaramoorthy's “Plagues, Pathogens, and Pedagogical Decolonization”
Through the Syllabus Archive on Teaching Tools, we have worked to put together different opportunities for people to share their approaches to emergent topics i... More
A Political Passion Play: Review of The New Gospel
Passion plays are theatrical reenactments of the suffering of Jesus Christ: his trial, the Stations of the Cross, and finally, the crucifixion on Calvary, outsi... More
Abayas: Shopping for Floor-Length Convenience, Modesty, and Transgression in Urban Cairo
Typically floor-length, black, and loose, abayas are dresses worn by women of working, middle, and upper classes in Egypt and other regions in the world. Conven... More
Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
After a busted motorboat spark plug leaves members of the Karrabing Collective stranded near the place of the saltwater Dreaming, police show up at their home w... More
Ethnographic Time and the Border: An Interview with Malini Sur
In this conversation, Scott Schnur sits down with Malini Sur to discuss the importance of engaging time from an ethnographic perspective during fieldwork. Discu... More
Diapers and Other Queer Objects: An Interview with George Paul Meiu
In this conversation, Juliana Friend invites George Paul Meiu to reflect on technologies of citizenship in Kenya. Meiu’s fieldwork traces discourses about diape... More
The Poetics of Deep Reading: A Field Guide to Getting Lost in a Book
When was the last time you read a book without checking your phone? Two years ago, we posed this question to our undergraduate students in political anthropol... More
Knowing and Making the Self: An Interview with Andrea Ford
In this conversation, Kristin Gupta sits down with Andrea Ford to discuss her ethnographic engagements with birth doulas and elite childbearing people in the Ba... More
Life After Catastrophe: Review of Dylda/Beanpole
Dylda (2019) by Kantemir Balagov is a film about human struggle to conceive a life amid ruins, left behind by war. It is also about the ambivalent meanings and ... More