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.
Showing Up: Creating Captivating Presentations
There is a famous quote by Woody Allen that says “80 percent of success is showing up.” But this means showing up with all of you, and that requires more than j... More
Screening Room: The Absent Stone
Over the next two weeks, the Visual and New Media Review is pleased to screen The Absent Stone (2013), a film by Sandra Rozental and Jesse Lerner. The film unp... More
Foreclosure Stories: An Interview with Noelle Stout
Andrés García Molina (AGM) and Franziska Weidle (FW): How did you come to research the mortgage crisis? Noelle Stout (NS): Foreclosure stories started circulati... More
Livia Stone on Contested Walls And Natural Forces
In this episode, we talk with Livia Stone, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Illinois State University. Livia, to... More
A New Vision for Teaching Tools
As the new section editor for the Teaching Tools section of the Cultural Anthropology website, I want to take this opportunity to present my vision for the sect... More
Screening Room: Griot
Last winter, Cultural Anthropology and the Visual and New Media Review had the opportunity to screen Collecting in the Collection: 46 Inuit Artifacts in the Ber... More
On Citizenfour: A Conversation with Bernard Harcourt
Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary film Citizenfour portrays Edward Snowden and the whistleblowing operation that exposed surveillance practices within the Nati... More
Willing to Be Convinced: An Interview with Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Ned Dostaler: Can you say a little bit about how you became interested in twentieth-century alternatives to neuroscience and perhaps contextualize your Cultural... More
Pause for Thought: A Conversation in Images with Gisa Weszkalnys
Gisa Weszkalnys is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her current research deals with the speculative a... More
#YallQaeda and #YeeHawd: A Ranchers’ Rebellion in the Age of Terrorism
For many it may be a bright new year, but for antigovernment protesters the long holiday weekend was an opportunity to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refu... More