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.
Making Art from Uncertainty: Magic and Its Politics in South African Rugby: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has also published a number of articles on apartheid in South Africa, including Jason Hickel’s “‘Xenophobia’ in South A... More
Becoming a Force in the Zone: Hedonopolitics, Masculinity, and the Quest for Respect on Haiti’s Streets: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnoteCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles dealing with masculinity, including Donna Perry’s “Fathers, Sons and the State: Disci... More
Muddy Labor: A Japanese Aid Ethic of Collective Intimacy in Myanmar: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on humanitarian aid and its ethical tensions, including Peter Redfield’s “The Unbearabl... More
“Too Fat to Be an Orphan”: The Moral Semiotics of Food Aid in Botswana: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on humanitarianism, including Tobias Rees’s “Humanity/Plan; or, On the ‘Stateless’ T... More
Occupy Wall Street and the Economic Imagination: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on banking crises, debt, and finance, including Nicholas D’Avella’s “Ecologies of Inves... More
Laura Moran on Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Australia
In this episode, Laura Moran, a recent graduate from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland talks about how Sudanese young people with re... More
Screening Room: Owners of the Water
Once again, thanks for taking part in our Screening Room series. We hope you were able to enjoy the film. Owners of the Water has been taken down, but this pag... More
Illegality
This month’s Field Notes series asks four contributors to reflect on the anthropological interest in illegality. Traditional anthropological studies approache... More
Screening Room: Voices of El Alto
We hope you were able to enjoy Voices of El Alto! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the filmmaker interview and other teaching res... More
Ethnographies of Post-Genocide
On this episode of AnthroPod, Jonah S. Rubin interviews three anthropologists working in the aftermath of genocides. The works these authors are discussing were... More