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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Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology
These essays confront the climate crisis, and the conceptions of humanity it evokes, through the histories of environmental anthropology itself. Over time, conc... More
Capture, Connect, Shift
This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective under the director... More
Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care
The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated attunement or e... 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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AAA 2025 Part 1: Storytelling, Performance, History
This is the first of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Throughout this minise... More
In Praise of the Oral Exam: Returning to Face-to-Face Conversation in the Age of AI
One of my favorite courses to teach is an upper-level anthropology seminar called “Animality and the Human Question.” Part multi-species ethnography, part criti... More
Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 2
This is the second episode of the two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with indigenous communities in Mexico. In this episode, Emiliana Cru... 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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