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.

How to Submit

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

Relata Revisited

Teaching Tools

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

Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Visual and New Media Review

Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Atmospheric Noise gathers the indeterminacies and excesses of sound and the limits of measurement, law and archive, with noise “falling away as both sound and c... More

"Pausing...to Come Together": An Interview with Anna Eisenstein

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"Pausing...to Come Together": An Interview with Anna Eisenstein

In the following interview, Anna Eisenstein delves into the multiple dimensions at play in an ‘anthropology of pace.’ As the author elaborates on her analysis o... More

Denaturalizing Ethnographic Epistemology

Member Voices

Denaturalizing Ethnographic Epistemology

This piece brings attention to the consequences of binarizing categories like “the native” and “Other” for scholars who do not fit easily into a hegemonic parad... More

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part II)

Visual and New Media Review

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part II)

This post is part of a two-post series. See "Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part I)" for the first installment. ... More

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part I)

Visual and New Media Review

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part I)

This post is part of a two-post series. See "Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part II)" to continue this conversation with us. ... More

Book Forum: Iran Reframed

Visual and New Media Review

Book Forum: Iran Reframed

Narges Bajoghli’s Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (2019) is an extraordinary achievement that illustrates the relation between contemp... More

Caring for Agricultural Landscapes: An Interview with Emily Reisman

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Caring for Agricultural Landscapes: An Interview with Emily Reisman

In this interview, Janita Van Dyk invites Emily Reisman to discuss the relationships between care, temporality, and agriculture in Mallorca. Reisman highlights ... More

The Tensions of Tech: An Interview with Nick Seaver

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The Tensions of Tech: An Interview with Nick Seaver

In this conversation, Kristin Gupta sits down with Nick Seaver to discuss his ethnographic engagements with music recommender systems and the people who make th... More

Legal Work as Care Work: Interview with Erin Routon

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Legal Work as Care Work: Interview with Erin Routon

In the following interview, Erin Routon and Riddhi Pandey explore the presence of care in legal work and the implications of recognizing legal work as care work... More