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.
The Currency of Failure: Money and Middle-Class Critique in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published several articles on studies on the anthropology of money, value, and circulation including Virginia Domin... More
The Tragic Denouement of English Sociality: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnoteCultural Anthropology has published articles that examine the intersection between new media, digital lives, and culture, including Teri Silvi... More
Life Above Earth: An Introduction: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles that examine environmental questions, including Ananthakrishnan Aiyer’s “The Allure ... More
Occupation Bedbug: Or, the Urgency and Agency of Professional Pragmatism: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published articles dealing with human and nonhuman agency, including Eitan Wilf’s “Sincerity Versus Self-Expression... More
Anticipatory States: Tsunami, War, and Insecurity in Sri Lanka: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesAffective, psychological, and political effects of disasters and their attendant anticipatory states in Cultural Anthropology are central the... More
Fat
Susan Greenhalgh, Jessica Hardin, Harris Solomon, and Michael Montoya contribute to this Field Notes series on fat.... More
The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera
Review: Ethnographic Terminalia 2014, Hierarchy, Washington, D.C., December 3–7 Ethnographic Terminalia is a curatorial collective that since 2009 has been cur... More
Dorothy E. Roberts on The Future of Race in Science: Regression or Revolution?
On this episode of AnthroPod, we bring you Dorothy E. Roberts's 2014 Culture at Large keynote address from the 2014 meeting of the American Anthropological Asso... More
Writing/Power/Story: Why and How to Do Ethnography of Nonhuman Beings and Things
Why study nonhuman beings and things? For physical anthropologists, there is no doubt that studying nonhuman things is an essential route to making sense of the... More
Naisargi Dave on Animal Rights Activism in India
In this episode, AnthroPod interviews Naisargi Dave, who is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and the author... More