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.
Teaching with Digital Technology: In-Class Applications
Last month, the Teaching Tools section kicked off a series of posts exploring how digital technologies can be used in teaching, particularly in anthropology cou... More
Dilemmas of the Long Term: An Interview with Ilana Feldman
Elizabeth DeLuca: Burj al Barajneh, the Palestinian refugee camp you write about in this article, was founded nearly seventy years ago, and you have been studyi... More
Animals and Anthropology
There has been a recent fluorescence of anthropological interest in human-animal relationships, animals in society, and animal politics in a conjuncture often c... More
Race and the Good Liberal
The black man is perfect, cried James Baldwin. Surely he knew the pitch of his prose. Those like me—the middlebrow intellectual, proud reader of Black thought—t... More
Kindred Tools: An Interview with Nomi Stone
Katherine Sacco and Michelle Hagman: We’d like to start by asking you to tell us a bit more about how you got involved with this project. How did you gain acces... More
Teaching with Digital Technology: An Introduction
As an instructor, you may have a strict policy on the use of laptops, tablets, and mobile phones in class. Perhaps you ask students to keep their digital device... More
Reflections on a Multimodal Experiment: On the Golden Snail Opera
At a snail’s pace . . . how long can we humans live that way—or if not live, at least look at a patch of silty ground under the water of a rice paddy? There’s a... More
Teaching Race: On Stereotypes and Privilege
I am a white woman, an identity I share with the majority of women voters who elected President Donald Trump. I am also middle-class, another aspect of my privi... More
Socializing Through Technology: Pokémon GO in Downtown Detroit
In this episode of AnthroPod, guest podcaster David Leins examines the impact of Pokémon GO on communities, both digital and physical, in downtown Detroit. Poké... More
You End Up Enchanted: An Interview with Claudio Sopranzetti
Alessandra Radicati: How did your ethnographic engagement with motorcycle taxi drivers begin? Are they the main occupational group you follow in your research? ... More