Published between 2013 and 2015, Field Notes drew inspiration from Donna Haraway’s take on cat's cradle as a “game of relaying patterns.” In each series, four scholars wrote short pieces that built on each other in turn, using the keywords of provocation, translation, deviation, and integration as structuring devices.
Fat
Susan Greenhalgh, Jessica Hardin, Harris Solomon, and Michael Montoya contribute to this Field Notes series on fat.... More
Illegality
This month’s Field Notes series asks four contributors to reflect on the anthropological interest in illegality. Traditional anthropological studies approache... More
Activism
For decades now, the field of anthropology has produced a vast amount of scholarship on social movements and protest, providing unique insights into the dynam... More
Care
This month, Field Notes invites four scholars to consider the theme of care. What has anthropology contributed to the study of care? What does it provoke? How d... More
Sport
Sport has recently attracted close ethnographic interest as an object of discipline, a realm of popular culture through spectatorship, and through the contemp... More
Aging
This month, Field Notes invites four scholars to consider the theme of aging. What has anthropology contributed to the study of aging? How does aging and associ... More
The Politics of Memory
Collective memory is increasingly the language by which individuals and groups struggle over their own identity and makes demands in the public sphere. Since ... More
Food
Julie Guthman, Dylan Gordon, Heather Paxson, and Brad Weiss consider the topic of food in this Field Notes series.... More
Studying Unformed Objects
. . . it is not enough for us to open our eyes, to pay attention, to be aware, for new objects suddenly to light up and emerge out of the ground.—Michel Foucaul... More
Invisibilities
Many scholars have noted vision’s privileged place within modern knowledge production, and contemporary technologies—from Google Earth to video cameras for lapa... More