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.
Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia
Namita Vijay Dharia’s “Embodied Urbanisms” explores the metabolic nature of corruption discourse in the context of rapid real estate development in Gurugram, In... More
The Sound of Borders Part 1: Crossing
What kind of narrative space do migrants enter when they cross the border to the United States? And how does musical performances conjure up pockets of convivia... More
Teaching as Performance: On Scripts, Preparing for Classes, and Teaching with Passion
When I first started teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the American University in Cairo in 2018, I ran to one of my favorite mentors to share the excitin... More
What Does Anthropology Sound Like: Performance
This is the third episode in the What Does Anthropology Sound Like series. In it Dr. Cassandra Hartblay, Dr. Greg Pierotti, and Dr. Cristiana Giordano join cont... More
The Syllabus is Political
Around the end of October, in the lead up to Halloween, I like to assign my introduction to cultural anthropology course a Jean and John Comaroff article about ... More
What Resilience Does
This episode kicks off AnthroPod’s newest series, What Concepts Do, which contextualizes national and international conversations in anthropological discourse. ... More
Radical Humanism and Decolonization: An Interview with Kamari Clarke
In this episode Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke reflects on her ethnographic work in Africa, her thinking on the legacies of colonialism in the discipline of Ant... More
Relata Revisited
In a previous post on the SCA website, Relata is described as an experimental tool for collaborative indexing and exploratory search that seeks to map conversat... More
Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles
Atmospheric Noise gathers the indeterminacies and excesses of sound and the limits of measurement, law and archive, with noise “falling away as both sound and c... More
"Pausing...to Come Together": An Interview with Anna Eisenstein
In the following interview, Anna Eisenstein delves into the multiple dimensions at play in an ‘anthropology of pace.’ As the author elaborates on her analysis o... More