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.
On Citizenfour: A Conversation with Bernard Harcourt
Laura Poitras’s 2014 documentary film Citizenfour portrays Edward Snowden and the whistleblowing operation that exposed surveillance practices within the Nati... More
Willing to Be Convinced: An Interview with Matthew Wolf-Meyer
Ned Dostaler: Can you say a little bit about how you became interested in twentieth-century alternatives to neuroscience and perhaps contextualize your Cultural... More
Pause for Thought: A Conversation in Images with Gisa Weszkalnys
Gisa Weszkalnys is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her current research deals with the speculative a... More
#YallQaeda and #YeeHawd: A Ranchers’ Rebellion in the Age of Terrorism
For many it may be a bright new year, but for antigovernment protesters the long holiday weekend was an opportunity to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refu... More
Paolo Favero on Visual Methods
In this episode we talk with Paolo Favero about applying visual methods in the field. Favero has devoted the core of his work to the study of visual culture in ... More
Errance and Elsewheres: An Interview with Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga
Julien Cossette and Kathe Gray: Your recent article describes how errance is a notion that you encountered in French aesthetics and art, as well as how you firs... More
Teaching Anthropology Electric
I sing the body electric,The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,And discorrupt t... More
Time and the Axe: A Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite
For contemporary viewers of documentary, Anna Grimshaw’s four-part series Mr. Coperthwaite: A Life in the Maine Woods, is a lesson in patience. Part 1, “Spring... More
#BlackLivesMatter: Anthropologists on Protest, Policing and Race-Based Violence
On today’s show, we’re going to be hearing interviews with three leading anthropologists on the Black Lives Matter protest. Earlier this year, Sean Furmage spo... More
Porcine Worlds: An Interview with Alex Blanchette
Julia Sizek: In your article, you discuss the ways in which human labor has been reorganized to tend to porcine bodies, and you end your article with a call for... More