Launched in 2012, Fieldsights has helped to catalyze the growth of nonjournal digital publishing in anthropology. Today, its various sections address diverse audiences in both textual and nontextual formats.
Fieldsights posts should not be described as “published in Cultural Anthropology.” The two publications have different tempos, review processes, and forms of credit associated with their output.
Editors’ Forum
These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
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Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. It does so by b... More
Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo, la teorizació... More
Unbuilding
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
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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Teaching Writing While Teaching Anthropology
On the first day of class, while students are combing through the syllabus, I often watch for their reactions as they look at the assignments for the course. Re... More
Playing Fieldwork: Digital Ethnography Today
In this episode, “Playing Fieldwork”—the first in a new series called Rewiring the Field—we explore how anthropologists are rethinking fieldwork in digital spac... More
These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency: An Interview with Cameron Hu
In this interview, Cameron Hu considers the entailments of modernity’s—and anthropology’s—insistence on historical contingency. What follows is a lightly edited... More
Collaboration Studio
The Collaboration Studio draws together content previously published in different sections of Fieldsights. It also anchors a yearlong seminar that allows Contributing Editors to work together for a fixed period of time on a topic of shared interest. Currently, the Archive of these Studios can be found under Fieldsights, “Collaborative Topics (Archive).”
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