Member Voices showcases the intellectual vitality of the SCA by featuring the work of its members, as well as archived content from discontinued Fieldsights sections. We publish short pieces which engage contemporary disciplinary conversations within anthropology. We welcome submissions which put current events in conversation with anthropological thought and literature. We encourage creativity and collaboration, aiming to create a forum which propels the discipline in new and exciting directions.
Ethics
During this round of Field Notes, we have invited four scholars to think through the implications of a turn toward ethics and morality in anthropology and to ex... More
Disaster
Today marks two years since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Tohoku region. A string of additional catastrophes— tsunamis and nuclear explosions—closely f... More
Affect
Ruminations on affect, the passions, and emotion have intrigued students of the human experience for centuries. As early as Durkheim's descriptions of collectiv... More
Comprehensive Immigration Policy . . . for Whom?
Last week, I interviewed Adam, an undocumented day laborer from Mexico, who has been in the United States less than ten years and who is now sheltered after liv... More
On Accidental Recoveries and Predictable Disasters: The Haitian Earthquake Three Years Later
On Saturday, January 12, 2013, I found myself in a traffic standstill on the outbound lanes of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. As the wind and th... More
Entangled Finance, Karen Ho, and a Genuinely Free Lunch
It might be tempting, especially for an anthropologist who thinks a lot about finance, to frame the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association a... More
Contact/Access
For our first round of Field Notes, we have asked our contributors to explore how they arrived at all the "first times" that pepper the training and fieldwork o... More
Rituals of Mourning in the Public Sphere: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
How do various emotional responses emerge out of rituals of public mourning? This was the question examined in various contexts by the panel “Mass Mourning: Obj... More
How to Research Affect Ethnographically: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
How are anthropologists and other ethnographers to study the seemingly ephemeral and slippery category of affect? This was the question taken up by the three pr... More
Animacy: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
Animacy Panelists: Allen Feldman; Anand Pandian; Kathleen Stewart; Hugh Raffles Discussant: Timothy Choy To Timothy Choy’s thinking, describing animacy is alway... More
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