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.
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
Fieldwork, Writing, and Teaching China: An Interview with Yue Liao
In his article “Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-Mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China,” Yue Liao explores the lives of... More
AAA 2025 Part 2: Race across Borders
This is the second of a three-part miniseries covering the 2025 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in New Orleans. Throughout this minis... More
A Better World Somewhere: Thinking with and about Keith Hart
Few anthropological concepts have traveled as far as Keith Hart’s “informal economy,” which altered the course of development economics in the 1970s. He once re... More
Comfort and Community in Teaching Anthropology Online
Like many educators, the first experience of online teaching came several days after a nationwide COVID lockdown was announced in early 2020. I was teaching hig... More
A Dialogue on Love 2: How to Live with Violent Love?
Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual violence, sexual assault, imprisonment, and intimate partner violence.... More
Staying in the Scene: Situated Assessment and the Labor of Learning to See
In Spring 2026, I designed and taught Migration and Social Justice, a 200-level undergraduate course at Middlebury College, moving from transnational migration ... More
Teaching Sociology to Future Engineers
I used to be a teaching fellow of sociology1 at an Indian engineering university. For my students—specializing in computer science, design, and electrical and c... More