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.
Survivors
An aerial view descends into the city as floating trash blur the boundaries where water turns to housing settlements. The camera follows an ambulance through th... More
Rethinking Populism: An Interview with Robert Samet
Ola Galal: You argue that the mistake of scholars and activists who oppose right-wing populism around the world is that they have failed to take seriously the r... More
Out of the Ordinary: A Review of The Hundreds
Perhaps a theory orders the world; perhaps poetry disrupts it . . . Perhaps The Hundreds (Duke University Press, 2019)—Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s col... More
China’s Respiratory Communities
“It’s always busier here when the pollution is bad,” Lili, a community engagement coordinator, told me. Worried I would not be able to find the place, she had w... More
Reimagining the Annual Meeting for an Era of Radical Climate Change
This is less a blog post than a virtual and distributed happening. We bring you the account of a roundtable at the November 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting in Van... More
Anthropological Film Fragments from Early Twentieth-Century Mexico: A Curatorial Problem
What if we approached our pedagogical and scholarly engagements with ethnographic cinemas as a series of curatorial exercises in seeing, as a practice of second... More
Anthropology and/of Mental Health Part 1
In this episode, Contributing Editor Anar Parikh interviews Professor Beatriz Reyes-Foster (University of Central Florida) and Professor Rebecca J. Lester (Wash... More
Media, Images, and the Expressive Arts at AAA/CASCA 2019
The American Anthropology Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society will co-host their yearly national conference in Vancouver, Canada, from November 20... More
Bateson Book Forum: Dust of the Zulu
Louise Meintjes’s Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid (Duke University Press, 2017) is an ethnography of post-aparteid ngoma dance—a competitive ... More
A Conversation Around Keith Hart: Swimming into the Current of Human Society Through History
Many of Keith Hart’s students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends have long wanted to express their appreciation for the influence that the man and his idea... More