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.
Fieldwork and the Native Informant: A Review of Culture at Large 2017
Fieldwork and the Native Informant Organizers: Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) and Zeynep Gürsel (Macalester College) Featured Guest: Gayatri Chak... More
Elements: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Elements Panelists: Daniel Fisher (University of California, Berkeley), Andrea Ballestero (Rice University), Liisa Malkki (Stanford University), Nikhil Anand (U... More
The Promise of the Plan: An Interview with Thomas Yarrow
ON PLANSAtreyee Majumder: Amid the wide array of urban ethnography that exposes the messiness of development aspirations in postcolonial states, you offer an ... More
Podcasts and Pedagogy: Audio in the Anthropology Classroom
In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you a conversation with Angela Jenks, Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California, Irvine and former Sch... More
Teaching Podcasts in the Anthropology Classroom
In a recent episode of AnthroPod, I interviewed Angela Jenks, Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California, Irvine and former Scholar-in-Residen... More
Deserts of Polyphonic Longing: A Review of El Mar La Mar
The world appears tranquil at its edges. There, on the radiating borders between this and that, there’s a slight fog, or the thinnest of desert dust: almost f... More
An Uncertain Rush of Energy: An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
An Uncertain Rush of Energy: A Discussion with William Mazzarella on The Mana of Mass Society Chair: Bhrigupati Singh (Brown University)Panelists: Steven Caton ... More
Teaching Fugitive Anthropology with Maya Berry and Colleagues
In the wake of #MeToo and the resulting dialogues over sexual assault and its intersection with racial identities in the United States, this article brings thes... More
Ex-Post-Facto? An #AmAnth17 Panel Review
Ex-Post-Facto? The Anthropology of Media and Journalism in a Post-Truth Era Panelists: Robert Samet (Union College), Naomi Schiller (Brooklyn College, City Univ... More
The Anthropology of Media in a Post-Truth Era
In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you a recording of a panel at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which was entitled “Ex... More