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.
Screening Room: Savage Memory
Thanks for coming to our second Screening Room series. We hope you were able to enjoy the film! Savage Memory has been taken down, but this page will be up wi... More
Studying Unformed Objects
. . . it is not enough for us to open our eyes, to pay attention, to be aware, for new objects suddenly to light up and emerge out of the ground.—Michel Foucaul... More
Beginning a Sketch of Accumulation by Dispossession in Contemporary Cambodia
Accumulation by dispossession is on a freight train in Cambodia. Protected from capitalist economic development under the tutelage of Vietnam from 1979 to 1989,... More
Invisibilities
Many scholars have noted vision’s privileged place within modern knowledge production, and contemporary technologies—from Google Earth to video cameras for lapa... More
Incorporating Photography Exhibits in the Anthropology Classroom: A Review of Elena Geroska's Traces
If you're anything like me, you secretly enjoy when people leave the curtains of their living room windows open, allowing you to gain a two-second-long glance i... More
Screening Room: Roots of Love
Welcome to our first Screening Room Presentation Each month we will screen online ethnographic films and other documentaries relevant to anthropological concer... More
Online Resources and Blogging as Pedagogical Tools
The lives of our students, and our lives as professors, have increasingly moved online. This can be a source of anxiety as we struggle not only to stay in step ... More
Tokyo’s Commuter Train Suicides and the Society of Emergence: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous essays on culture and infrastructure which have been gathered in the Curated Collection on Infra... More
Eviction Time in the New Saigon: Temporalities of Displacement in the Rubble of Development: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a variety essays on the economies of Asia. See for example, Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang’s “Biopolit... More
Disciplinary Adaptation and Undergraduate Desire: Anthropology and Global Development Studies in the Liberal Arts Curriculum: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published several articles on education including Tom Looser’s “The Global University, Area Studies, and the World ... More