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.
Roundtable Discussion: Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology
In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you a recording of a roundtable discussion about the recently published Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anth... More
Teaching Electronic Life Histories
Recent works on the anthropology of waste, rubbish, and discard abound. Many focus on the destructive capacities of capitalist accumulation and the unrecounted ... More
The Politics of Compilation: Around India with Sandhya Suri
How does one approach the past? Whether as a vast, uneven field, a spiral, or a stairway, spatial metaphors fail to do justice to time. Excavating memory, as ... More
How Should We Think of the Sentinel Islanders?
The last time the inhabitants of Sentinel Island were caught in the glare of global media attention was in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami. The image of a Sen... More
Citation Matters: An Updated Reading List for a Progressive Environmental Anthropology
Scholarship in environmental anthropology has historically asked questions about how humans relate to the interconnected biophysical and cultural processes unfo... More
Fields of Relevance: An Interview with Perry Sherouse
Alexandra Vieux Frankel (AVF): This article is rich with visual media, from posters to photographs to stills of YouTube videos. The placement of these images ... More
At the Limits of Selfhood: An Interview with Kevin Lewis O’Neill
Andrés Romero: In this article, you demonstrate how pastoralism as an institutional project is kept alive through the inversion of value around the figure of th... More
Becoming Infrastructural: An Interview with Michael Degani
Scott Ross (SR): In the article, you draw on Sianne Ngai’s argument regarding zaniness’s emergence in response to capitalism’s constant revolutionizing, and you... More
AnthroBites: Queer Anthropology
AnthroBites is a series from the AnthroPod team, designed to make anthropology more digestible. Each episode tackles a key concept, text, or theme, and breaks i... More
Methods for Many Anthropocenes with Andrew S. Mathews
This Teaching Tools post is designed as a resource for using the article to explore visual techniques for ethnographic thought and to consider the environment a... More