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.
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
Election’s Reverb: An Interview with Stefan Helmreich
Andrés García Molina (AGM) and Julien Cossette (JC): The inaugural Sound + Vision section of Cultural Anthropology appeared in the midst of a long-in-the-making... More
The Chemical Refrain: An #AmAnth2016 Panel Review
The Chemical RefrainChair: Eben Kirksey (University of New South Wales). Presenters: Nicholas Shapiro (Chemical Heritage Foundation), Jason Pine (Purchase Colle... More
To Make Ends Possible Again: An Interview with Eli Thorkelson
Atreyee Majumder: Let me start by picking your brain on the notion of stubbornness. The anthropology of affect has straddled many emotions and their political m... More
Where the Image Takes Us: An Interview with the Golden Snail Team
Sander Holsgens: “Golden Snail Opera” is visceral, affective, textural. You call it a more-than human performance. This ecological interest opens up to a layere... More
The Shattered Echo Chamber: Experiences of #AmAnth2016 in the Wake of the Election
As anthropologists convened for the 2016 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, just one week after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential ... More
Just an Anthropologist? An Interview with Esther Newton
The following interview, which was conducted by Sebastian Mohr (Danish School of Education, Aarhus University), took place in Esther Newton’s office at the Univ... More
Alma Gottlieb on Experiments in Ethnographic Writing
AnthroPod is back from several months of hiatus! In this episode, Alma Gottlieb discusses her approach to ethnographic writing. Over the summer, AnthroPod spoke... More
Teaching Refusal
The collection brings together four researchers working on the topic of refusal, which they seek to theorize as “an ethnographic, as well as political, concept.... More