While not formally reviewed, posts in these Fieldsights sections reflect the breadth and pace of anthropological conversations today. They are edited and produced by early-career scholars in the SCA’s Contributing Editors Program.
Economies of Consumption, Abandon, and Shifting Moral Worlds: An Interview with Peter Lockwood
In the following author interview, Peter Lockwood discusses how land and kinship intertwine, desires that interface between economies of consumption and abandon... More
AI and the Anthropology Classroom
What is the relationship between generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the anthropology classroom? How are anthropologists using, refusing, or shaping AI ... More
Forced Out of Darfur: A Journey Not a Destination
In summer 2023, I spent a few months in the south of Tunisia, mainly in Zarzis, where my family resides. Zarzis is a coastal fishing town situated immediately s... More
DJing to Grasp Social Things: Imagining a Mixing Ethnography
Where Are the DJs?Imagine entering a listening session with anthropologists. It is hosted at a big venue with several hazy rooms. On a regular night, a dense, d... More
Social Life of Death: An Interview with Anjali Krishan
In her article, “Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of ‘Good’ Womanhood,” Anjali Krishan examines how middle-class married women in De... More
AAA 2025 Part 3: Environment, Disaster, Viable Futures
This episode of AnthroPod is the third in a miniseries sharing highlights from talks organized by the Society for Cultural Anthropology at the 2025 meeting of t... More
Speculation in Ethnographic Comics
This series features four essays on comics and the speculative imagination in the classroom and ethnographic field research. The authors, who met in a seminar o... More
What Disappointment Does
Disappointment emerges in today’s world in a variety of spaces and social registers. But what does it feel like, how do we know it… what does it do? In 2022, an... More
(Digital) Naturalists in the Anthropology Classroom
Why teach anthropology students to use naturalist methods? How could digital apps like eBird and iNaturalist contribute to learning about anthropos? How can edu... More
Auto-Reflexivity and Fieldwork Safety
In 2020, Jerika Loren Heinze published a Fieldsights post for the Society for Cultural Anthropology entitled “Gauging the Toll: Auto-reflexivity, Sexual Violenc... More