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.
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
More than a Game: A Black Feminist Look at the Anthropology of Sports
In this episode, we dive into college football by examining the lived experiences of Black players and their bodies through the lens of Black feminist thought, ... More
Sustaining Containability: A Conversation with Elana Resnick
In this interview, Elana Resnick reflects on the evolution of her research on recycling and waste in Bulgaria. She highlights the longer historical contexts sha... More
The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death
In this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-legal institutio... More
On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on pollution and toxicity... More
Part 2 (Epilogue): Teaching Orientalism in a Time of Genocide and Rising Fascism
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read part one here. They are there all right, but the narrative of their presen... More
Part 1: Teaching Orientalism at the Intersection of History and Anthropology
This post is part of a two-post series on teaching with the work of Edward Said. Read the epilogue here. Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has profoundly affecte... More
Teaching and Organizing for Environmental Justice in Baltimore
Baltimore’s residents of color are twice as likely as white residents to develop cancer from toxic exposure, and suffer some of the highest asthma hospitalizati... More