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.
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
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
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
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
Military Remains: An Interview with Joseph Weiss
Céline Eschenbrenner: Most of the questions below have to do with the not-so-ruined quality of what you and your interlocutors call “the Base,” in the north end... More
Rehavi (Timekeepers)
Juan Castrillón’s Rehavi (Timekeepers) (2016) eloquently weaves documentary and fiction to reckon with the materialities of time and music. The film follows the... More
KİRAİÑİA (Long Flutes)
Juan Castrillón’s KİRAİÑİA (Long Flutes) (2019) is a film about searching for lost sounds and their partial retrieval. In particular, the sounds that emanate fr... More
Syllabus Archive: Diverse Approaches to Transnationalism
Transnationalism is broadly understood as the interconnection and movement of humans, objects, ideas, ideologies, and processes that “transcend” nation-state bo... More
A Collaboratory of Indian Ocean Ethnographies
The pandemic brought an unsettling fog of silence down on field-dependent research along the littoral fringes of the northern Indian Ocean. It caused severely r... More
On the Politics and Ethics of What-Comes-After: An Interview with Townsend Middleton
In the following interview, Townsend Middleton and Michelle Hak Hepburn reflect on starting from the “excluded elsewhere” (Karera 2019), bringing the concept of... More