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.
Science and the Senses
Scientific inquiry eschews and embraces sensory experience. Yet sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and movement all inform scientific work. Across disciplines, ... More
Violence a Long Way Back: An Interview with Angela Garcia
Jessica Cooper and Andrés Romero: “The Blue Years” revolves around the archive of letters that came into your possession, but we were hoping that you could spea... More
On the Travel Ban: An Interview with Darryl Li
On Friday, January 27, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that temporarily bars the entry of refugees into the United States and bans citizens of ... More
What Are You Reading? Responses to the Election and Inauguration
Like many anthropologists, we responded to this postelection moment by turning to books. But confronted by the long lists of readings in crowdsourced syllabi, w... More
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: Anthropologists Reflect on What Just Happened
In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you a recording of an invited session organized by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for the Anthropology... More
Environmental Data, Guerrilla Archiving, and the Trump Transition
Many of Donald Trump’s disinformation tactics go in two related directions: grandiose promises to rally his base, and trolling or decoy statements meant to inci... More
Outer Space Trilogy 1: Haircuts and Billionaires
This is the first episode in a special AnthroPod trilogy highlighting three anthropologists of outer space and coauthors of “Relational Space: An Earthly Instal... More
Working with Uncertainty: An Interview with Limor Samimian-Darash
Ned Dostaler: When did you first learn about the Turning Point scenario-based exercises that you describe in your article, and why did you decide to take them u... More
Engaging with Inequality and Affective States: A Review of Culture at Large 2016
Engaging with Inequality and Affective States Organizer: Laura Bear (London School of Economics) Featured Guest: Javier Auyero (University of Texas at Austin) D... More
Teaching Queer Anthropology
This Teaching Tools post presents strategies for teaching the collection and putting it into dialogue with other texts, as well as connecting students with scho... More