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.
A Critical Archaeology of Documents: Analyzing Plans, Maps, and Bureaucratic Artifacts with Federico Pérez
Federico Pérez is Assistant Professor of Urban Anthropology at the Urban Honors College at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. He is currently workin... More
Screening Room: Cast in India
We hope you were able to enjoy Cast in India! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the trailer, filmmaker interview, and other teachi... More
There in the Thicket: An Interview with Jason Pine
Joey Russo: Your recent article deals in incommensurability, both in content and form. The piece foregrounds a weaving of theoretical and ethnographic modes; it... More
Behind the Screens: Faye Ginsburg
Welcome to the second post of the Visual and New Media Review’s video blog, Behind the Screens. This blog shines light on how anthropologists are exploring th... More
Charlene Makley on Tibetan Self-Immolation Protests
On this episode of AnthroPod, we talk with Charlene Makley (Reed College) about her article “The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Pr... More
Ethnography
Ethnography, according to Tim Ingold (2014, 383), “has become a term so overused, both in anthropology and in contingent disciplines, that it has lost much of i... More
Lessons for Learning-Centered Course Design
A favorite joke in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) community is based on one of Bud Blake’s comic strips. Tiger, the titular character, is talki... More
Teaching the Anthropology of Dance
Cultural Anthropology has published a number of research articles about dance, including Sally A. Ness’ “Originality in the Postcolony: Choreographing the Neoet... More
Bringing Medical Anthropology Back into the Fold: An Interview with Daena Funahashi
Paul Schissel: Initially, I wanted to draw readers’ attention to an earlier article of yours published in Cultural Anthropology, “Wrapped in Plastic: Transforma... More
First Day Activity: Ten Things You Believe to be True
The first day of class is often a challenge for new instructors. After addressing the inevitable logistical issues (e.g., enrollment, the syllabus, access to co... More