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.
A Tiger’s Leap into the Past: An Interview with Anand Vivek Taneja
Anand Vivek Taneja’s recently published book Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi speaks of lives in conversation with... More
Anthropology’s Politics: A Conversation with Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar
In this episode of AnthroPod, Beth Derderian interviews Lara Deeb (Scripps College) and Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University) about their recent book Anthro... More
A Beautiful Withdrawal: An Interview with Damien M. Sojoyner
Pablo Seward Delaporte: In your article, you mention that you taught at the school where you conducted research. How, if at all, might the argument of your arti... More
Armed with Red Lipstick
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Microdosing at Work: Reworking Bodies and Chemicals
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Producing Pleasure: Emotional Labor and Substance Use in Brooklyn’s Queer Nightlife
This essay is part of an online supplement to the Openings collection on “Chemo-Ethnography,” which was edited by Nicholas Shapiro and Eben Kirksey and featured... More
Sonic Registers and Observational Techniques: A Review of Linefork
Sound precedes most imagery and all meaning: it causes trajectories and orientations to rebound, as though its resonance and timbre mark affective and atmosph... More
Anthropology and Undergraduate Desire: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Anthropology and Undergraduate Desire Panelists: Richard Handler (University of Virginia), Lee Baker (Duke University), Charlie Piot (Duke University), Alexand... More
Unfinished: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming Panelists: João Biehl (Princeton University), Peter Locke (Northwestern University), Angela Garcia (Stanford Universit... More
Making the Rounds: Ethnographic Film in Circulation
In April 2017, Melissa Lefkowitz and Alia Ayman invited five anthropologists, filmmakers, and industry professionals whose work is integral to thinking about ... More