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 ‘Indifference’: A Conversation with Naisargi Davé
Naisargi N. Davé won the 2024 Gregory Bateson Book Prize for her book, Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being. In awarding the prize, the Society for... More
Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow
In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Australian electoral... More
A Dialogue on Love: Writing Through Migrant Belonging
This episode is about love. What does it mean to study love ethnographically and analytically? How might we speak of love, especially in today’s social and poli... More
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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