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.
Refusal as Ethnographic Concept: An Interview with Carole McGranahan, Elisa Sobo, and Erica Weiss
Charles A. McDonald: Could you tell our readers a bit about how this collection came together? Was refusal already a concept or an analytic that you were all le... More
Why Don't Students Read?
I once dismissed a class because no one had done the reading. I was teaching a lower-division course called “Peoples and Cultures of Africa,” and for two weeks ... More
Bodies, Environments, Inheritances: An Interview with Janelle Lamoreaux
Charlie Lotterman: To start off our conversation, can you situate this article within your own personal and academic history? What concerns did it grow out of, ... More
Crafting a Statement of Teaching Philosophy
A statement of teaching philosophy is the cornerstone of any teaching portfolio and is required for most academic job applications. But it is often a challengin... More
Seeing through the Static: A Conversation in Images with Eleana J. Kim
Julien Cossette: I would like to start by inviting you to discuss a series of photographs that you took at the recently opened Paju DMZ Village Museum in T’ongi... More
Anna Tsing on Landscapes and the Anthropocene
In this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you Anna Tsing’s keynote address at the 2015 Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, which was entitl... More
Teaching Race
Anthropologists have been grappling with race since the beginning of the discipline, and we have not kept quiet about it. From Franz Boas’s early critiques of t... More
It’s In the Syllabus
“What did we cover in class last week? What’s your late homework policy? When are your office hours? How will my grade be computed?” Jorge Chan’s PhD Comics str... More
Bateson Book Forum: Behold the Black Caiman
In their commentary on Lucas Bessire’s Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life, the winner of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s 2015 Gregory B... More
Gaza is Berning: How Bernie Sanders Helps Us Look at and through Statistics from Israel/Palestine
On April 1, 2016, Bernie Sanders gave the editorial board of the New York Daily News an interview that included one of the most controversial moments of his cam... More