While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. They are edited and produced by early-career scholars in the SCA’s Contributing Editors Program.
In Praise of the Oral Exam: Returning to Face-to-Face Conversation in the Age of AI
One of my favorite courses to teach is an upper-level anthropology seminar called Animality and the Human Question. Part multi-species ethnography, part critiqu... More
Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 2
This is the second episode of the two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with indigenous communities in Mexico. In this episode, Emiliana Cru... More
Linguistic Anthropology and Anthropologists in Mexico: Part 1
This episode is the first part of a two-part miniseries on linguistic anthropologists working with Indigenous communities in Mexico. In conversation with Mario ... More
Where Does the ‘Self-Indigenization’ Syndrome Come From? Critical Reflections on ‘Research Legitimacy’ in Contemporary Academia
Over the last decade, there have been growing calls for “academic decolonization” (Moosavi 2023) in the Global North, the need to approach and know the South as... More
Speculative Manuals: Illustration as Situated Translation in Ethnography
From Commission to MethodTake One Object (Errázuriz and Martínez, forthcoming) is a collective experiment in ethnographic attention. Forty-one anthropologists w... More
Bringing Lessons from Protest to the Classroom
June 23, 2024, was a sweltering hot 96-degree Sunday during a heat wave in New York City. I made my way to “A ‘Pride’ Protest,” an action organized by a coaliti... More
Thinking Through Problems Together: Comparison and Collaboration in Anthropology Today
In this guest episode, guest contributors Martina Weber and Lena Löhr ask what collaboration in anthropology really looks like and who gets to shape it. In this... More
Beginning in the Middle: Teaching Theory as Orientation
A familiar professional experience: You slip into a talk already underway. You missed the opening and a good chunk of the argument or important evidence. The sp... More
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