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.
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
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