Contributed Content

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.

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Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh

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Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh

Sahana Ghosh’s article ethnographically explores soldiering in independent India, focusing on the Border Security Force or BSF. Drawing on feminist thought and ... More

On Teaching Race and Racism at Princeton

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On Teaching Race and Racism at Princeton

BeginningsTeaching race and racism at Princeton University brought home to me the truism that the U.S. conversation about race and racism is, if anything, diffe... More

In the Name of Interculturality

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In the Name of Interculturality

We were walking with Juana, an Avá Guaraní teacher from the province of Salta (Argentina), through the school’s courtyard and into the library. Inside was the s... More

Multimodal Craft, Epistemological Stakes, and Transduction Pedagogy

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Multimodal Craft, Epistemological Stakes, and Transduction Pedagogy

Many of us are producing and teaching ethnographic work that is nonlinear, multimodal, multisensorial, and/or born digital. Students are energized when they enc... More

Anthropological Sketchnoting: In the Classroom

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Anthropological Sketchnoting: In the Classroom

In the previous post of this dual series on turning to sketchnoting as an anthropologist, I focused on incorporating visual thinking and drawing in ethnographic... More

Anthropological Sketchnoting: In the Field

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Anthropological Sketchnoting: In the Field

I never thought of drawing in the field. But my PhD supervisor surely envisioned it for me: in our last meeting before leaving for the upcoming “year in the fie... More

When Words Are Not Enough: Teaching Anthropology with Zines and Scrapbooks

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When Words Are Not Enough: Teaching Anthropology with Zines and Scrapbooks

“I learned that you had spent a lifetime equally devoted to the conviction that words are not good enough. Not only not good enough, but corrosive to all that i... More

Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia

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Pushing Buttons: Gender and Sexual Diversity & Dissidence in Academia

In this episode, we dive into gender and sexual diversity, sexual dissidence, and their intersections with anthropology and education. Through a conversation wi... More

Sugarcane Heterotopias: Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's film "A Future Buried in the Past"

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Sugarcane Heterotopias: Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's film "A Future Buried in the Past"

Daniel Bustos-Echeverry's A Future Buried in the Past (2023) explores the overlooked history of Cuban cultural colonization in Sincerín, Colombia, between 1909 ... More

Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat

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Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat

In this interview, Maira Hayat reflects on her ethnographic and theoretical engagements with bureaucrats and their everyday practices within Punjab’s irrigation... More