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.
Anthropological Sketchnoting: In the Field
I never thought of drawing in the field. But my PhD supervisor surely envisioned it for me: in our last meeting before leaving for the upcoming “year in the fie... More
When Words Are Not Enough: Teaching Anthropology with Zines and Scrapbooks
“I learned that you had spent a lifetime equally devoted to the conviction that words are not good enough. Not only not good enough, but corrosive to all that i... More
Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia
In this episode, we dive into gender and sexual diversity, sexual dissidence, and their intersections with anthropology and education. Through a conversation wi... More
Sugarcane Heterotopias: Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's film "A Future Buried in the Past"
Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's A Future Buried in the Past (2023) explores the overlooked history of Cuban cultural colonization in Sincerín, Colombia, between 1909 ... More
Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat
In this interview, Maira Hayat reflects on her ethnographic and theoretical engagements with bureaucrats and their everyday practices within Punjab’s irrigation... More
In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz
Ann-Christin Zuntz’s “Human Routers” offers a powerful peripheral vision of contemporary (im)migration, border regimes, and agency by shifting attention from re... More
It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood
In this interview, Paolo Heywood further discusses the uneasy art of forgetting in Predappio, a town still bound to Mussolini’s shadow despite its attempts to a... More
Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz
In his article, “Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power,” Malay Firoz interrogates the increasing dataficati... More
The Case for Paying it Backward: Thanking the Teachers Who Leave Imprints
When I wrote an email thanking my mentor for her guidance as I applied to graduate school, she replied with a note of acknowledgement, but ended with the reques... More
The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin
Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More
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