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.
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 PLANS Atreyee 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