Published between 2016 and 2019, Correspondences described itself as “a structured, playful conversation between a diverse group of scholars.” Originally conceived as a reboot of the Field Notes section, Correspondences eventually embraced a more flexible format as it fostered conversation across generational and geographic borders.

The Correspondences section of the SCA website is no longer active. However, the Society’s journal does publish short-form essays that are in explicit conversation with one another over a shared theme or concept in the Colloquy section.

Correspondence

Correspondence

Intellectual currents such as actor-network theory, environmental philosophy, speculative realism, and new (or neo-)materialism have challenged common-sense und... More

Hormones

Hormones

Omnipresent and versatile, hormones shape what it means to be human in fundamental ways. Hormones are often described as signaling molecules or chemical messeng... More

Justice

Justice

We think we know what injustice feels like. We can identify moments in our own lives that felt like oppression, like the refusal of freedom, like a wrong. And w... More

Images

Images

Many anthropologists drawn to experimental forms of ethnography have gravitated toward images as method. Lisa Stevenson (2014, 10) has proposed an “anthropology... More

The Household

The Household

How are the worlds in which we live shaped by the ways that households are thought and made? How does the scale of the household shape the spatial and temporal ... More

Proficiency

Proficiency

When it comes to the study of practice, one of the main challenges for ethnographers is often the question of their own proficiency. If it is widely regarded a ... More

Captivity

Captivity

In a global order marked, on the one hand, by unfettered mobility for the powerful and their resources, and, on the other, by the strengthening of borders to ke... More

Science and the Senses

Science and the Senses

Scientific inquiry eschews and embraces sensory experience. Yet sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and movement all inform scientific work. Across disciplines, ... More

Collaboration

Collaboration

collaboration, n. Pronunciation: /kəˌlabəˈreɪʃən/ Etymology: noun of action, < Latin collabōrāre to collaborate v.: probably immediately < French. 1. Uni... More

Teaching Race

Teaching Race

Anthropologists have been grappling with race since the beginning of the discipline, and we have not kept quiet about it. From Franz Boas’s early critiques of t... More