Contributed Content

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.

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Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to the relevant section editor.

What Solidarity Does

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What Solidarity Does

This is the second episode in AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do. The aim of the series is to examine, from an anthropological perspective, how differe... More

Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia

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Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia

Namita Vijay Dharia’s “Embodied Urbanisms” explores the metabolic nature of corruption discourse in the context of rapid real estate development in Gurugram, In... More

The Sound of Borders Part 1: Crossing

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The Sound of Borders Part 1: Crossing

What kind of narrative space do migrants enter when they cross the border to the United States? And how does musical performances conjure up pockets of convivia... More

Teaching as Performance: On Scripts, Preparing for Classes, and Teaching with Passion

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Teaching as Performance: On Scripts, Preparing for Classes, and Teaching with Passion

When I first started teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the American University in Cairo in 2018, I ran to one of my favorite mentors to share the excitin... More

What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

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What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance

This is the third episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series. In it Dr. Cassandra Hartblay, Dr. Greg Pierotti, and Dr. Cristiana Giordano join cont... More

The Syllabus is Political

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The Syllabus is Political

Around the end of October, in the lead up to Halloween, I like to assign my introduction to cultural anthropology course a Jean and John Comaroff article about ... More

What Resilience Does

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What Resilience Does

This episode kicks off AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do, which contextualizes national and international conversations in anthropological discourse. ... More

Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Clarke

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Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Clarke

In this episode Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke reflects on her ethnographic work in Africa, her thinking on the legacies of colonialism in the discipline of Ant... More

Mundane Fascism and Laboring Love: An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan

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Mundane Fascism and Laboring Love: An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan

Prerna Srigyan invites Radhika Govindrajan to discuss the importance and implications of bringing in the politics of loving and laboring to understand the munda... More

Relata Revisited

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Relata Revisited

In a previous post on the SCA website, Relata is described as an experimental tool for collaborative indexing and exploratory search that seeks to map conversat... More