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.
Teaching Anthropology Electric
I sing the body electric,The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,And discorrupt t... More
Time and the Axe: A Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite
For contemporary viewers of documentary, Anna Grimshaw’s four-part series Mr. Coperthwaite: A Life in the Maine Woods, is a lesson in patience. Part 1, “Spring... More
#BlackLivesMatter: Anthropologists on Protest, Policing and Race-Based Violence
On today’s show, we’re going to be hearing interviews with three leading anthropologists on the Black Lives Matter protest. Earlier this year, Sean Furmage spo... More
Porcine Worlds: An Interview with Alex Blanchette
Julia Sizek: In your article, you discuss the ways in which human labor has been reorganized to tend to porcine bodies, and you end your article with a call for... More
Teaching Muslim Immigration and Integration in France
Recently, the issue of Muslims living in and emigrating to various parts of Europe has been receiving much attention as difficulties with xenophobia and racism ... More
Tobias Rees on Global Health and Humanity
On today's show, Tobias Rees discusses current understandings of humanity in global health and calls for us to rethink our categories of analysis. Last year, St... More
Photography and Photo-Elicitation after Colonialism: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on postcolonialism in Africa including: Damian Droney’s “Ironies of Laboratory Work du... More
Behind the Screens: Jenna Burrell
Welcome to the first post of the Visual and New Media Review’s video blog, Behind the Screens. This blog shines light on how anthropologists are exploring the... More
Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on the body and embodiment, including Thomas Csordas’ seminal article “Somatic Modes of... More
“Where there is fire, there is politics”: Ungovernability and Material Life in Urban South Africa: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on material politics, including Antina von Schnitzler’s “Traveling Technologies: Inf... More