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.
Chemical Youth: Chemical Mediations and Relations at Work
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Settler Atmospherics
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Teaching Triggers with Megan Raschig
Megan Raschig is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Anthropology at the University of Virginia. In this article, Raschig draws on contemporary theories of the eve... More
Collaborative Topics (Archive)
Cultural Anthropology Responds to Trump
For our inaugural Collaboration Studio, we have collected politically relevant content about the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and ... More
Reading Achille Mbembe in Indian Majoritarian Politics
In the 2014 Indian national elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the stewardship of Narendra Modi, returned to power with a comfortable majority. O... More
Film, Photography, and the Contemporary Museum: An Interview with Denis Chevallier and Florent Molle
What follows is an edited transcript of an interview that contributing editor Julien Porquet conducted with Denis Chevallier, Professor of Anthropology at Uni... More
Reflections on Ethnographic Writing Today
Serving as the jury for this year’s Gregory Bateson Book Prize gave the four of us a remarkable opportunity to take the pulse of the discipline. It provided a r... More
More-than-Human Politics
In this episode of AnthroPod, guest producers Stine Krøijer and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen take up a debate that is central to current environmental and politi... More
To Craft a Wild Indoors: Teaching Interiority in the Anthropological Room-Space
When all of the students in your introductory course are non–anthropology majors, it can be difficult to decide which materials in the rarified and contested ca... More
De/Reconstructing Auto-Construction: An Interview with Alberto Corsín Jiménez
Pablo H. Seward Delaporte: I came across your doctoral dissertation (Corsín Jiménez 2001), which was based on research in the Chilean city of Antofagasta, and i... More