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.
Ethnography in the Way of Theory: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on innovative approaches ethnographic research, theory, and writing, including: Anand ... More
Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds, and Persons: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published articles about the secular body (see Talal Asad's "Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal P... More
Human Rights As Moral Progress? A Critique: Supplemental Material
About the Author Jarrett Zigon is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Born in the U.S and ra... More
Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill: Supplemental Material
Abstract This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Me... More
Traveling Technologies: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa: Supplemental Material
About the Author Antina von Schnitzler is an assistant professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs and an affiliate faculty member in the Departm... More
Saida Hodžić on Global Health Governance
On today's podcast, Saida Hodžić, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University, discusses how a 2006 Wo... 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
Screening Room: Gods and Kings
The film Gods and Kings has been taken down. The trailer, interview with filmmakers, photo essay and resource materials will still be live. Thanks for joining... More
Kamari M. Clarke on Cultural Citizenship in the Black Atlantic World
On today's show, Prof. Kamari Maxine Clarke discusses cultural citizenship in the black Atlantic world and her vision for the future of ethnographic research.... 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