Launched in 2012, Fieldsights has helped to catalyze the growth of nonjournal digital publishing in anthropology. Today, its various sections address diverse audiences in both textual and nontextual formats.
Fieldsights posts should not be described as "published in Cultural Anthropology." The two publications have different tempos, review processes, and forms of credit associated with their output.
Editors’ Forum
These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
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Another Season of War in Lebanon
This collection of essays illuminates the seasonality of war in Lebanon (its present and its longue durée), looking at how those who inhabit Lebanon’s many wars... More
Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America
This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a time where fact... More
Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for granted as a natural ... More
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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In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz
Ann-Christin Zuntz’s “Human Routers” offers a powerful peripheral vision of contemporary (im)migration, border regimes, and agency by shifting attention from re... More
It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood
In this interview, Paolo Heywood further discusses the uneasy art of forgetting in Predappio, a town still bound to Mussolini’s shadow despite its attempts to a... More
Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz
In his article, “Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power,” Malay Firoz interrogates the increasing dataficati... More
Collaboration Studio
The Collaboration Studio draws together content previously published in different sections of Fieldsights. It also anchors a yearlong seminar that allows Contributing Editors to work together for a fixed period of time on a topic of shared interest. Currently, the Archive of these Studios can be found under Fieldsights, "Collaborative Topics (Archive)."
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