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.
Words in Worlds: An Interview with Kathleen Stewart
Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke: When you began your academic career, attention to affective intensities was arguably not yet as prevalent in anthropology o... More
Ethnography and Design 2: Swedish Design and Ethnocharrettes
This AnthroPod episode is the second in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design. The series was inspired by the conference “Ethnograph... More
On Affect, Aesthetics, and Mass Mediation: An Interview with William Mazzarella
Andrés Romero and Toby Austin Locke: In this article, you work through a genealogy of thought on affective relations that diverges from the usual line from Baru... More
Ecologies and Expertise: Teaching Climate Adaptation with Sarah E. Vaughn
Sarah E. Vaughn is the James and Mary Pinchot Fellow at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2016–2017) and Assistant Professor in the Departm... More
Teaching with Hope: Anand Pandian on Cultivating Possibility in the Classroom
“Why are we so interested in other ways of being human, if not to put those into practice as ways of pluralizing both what we can be and what the world we inhab... More
Fieldnote as Political Weapon: James Comey’s Ethnographic Turn?
Watching the testimony of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey live on television, I came to realize—one more time and with politic... More
Ethnography and Design 1: Disability, Design, and Performance
This AnthroPod episode is the first in a three-part series on the intersection of ethnography and design, based on the conference “Ethnography and Design: Mutua... More
Proficiency
When it comes to the study of practice, one of the main challenges for ethnographers is often the question of their own proficiency. If it is widely regarded a ... More
Bateson Book Forum: The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s beautifully written ethnography The Mushroom at the End of the World evokes the forms of life that emerge in the ruins and fissures—the ... More
To Build This Other World Upon: An Interview with Stefanie Graeter
Marianinna Villavicencio and Liliana Gil: Your article makes a compelling argument about how, in a moment when progressive politics have been discredited in Per... More