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.
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
Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on expert knowledge, science and technology studies, subjectivity and citizenship, and... More
Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnote Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays exploring unexpected connections, including Eva Hayward's "Fingereyes: Impressions of ... More
Dear Dr. Freud: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a variety of articles on death and mourning, including Jean Langford's "Gifts Intercepted: Biopolitics a... More
Socialities of Indignation: Denouncing Party Politics in Karachi: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published several recent articles on violence, including Ruchi Chaturvedi’s ‘“Somehow it Happened”: Violence, Culp... More
Radmilla's Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on music, performance, and creativity in relation to individual subjectivity. These i... More
Field of Difference: Limitations of the Political in Ontological Anthropology
Ontological anthropologists have moved beyond reflexive anthropology because they are fully aware and intentionally involved in choosing which analytic they use... More
The Form of the Otherwise
A quiet question was raised at the end of the roundtable on “The Politics of Ontology” about where writing fit into the discussion. The absence of the topic was... 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
The Ontological Spin
This post is a distilled version of a longer essay, published in American Ethnologist as "Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique." The latest sal... More