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.
Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published articles on subject formation in the context of humanitarian intervention (see, for example, Ramah McKay'... More
Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on the practical and theoretical intersections of politics, aesthetics, and cultural... More
Post/Socialist Affect: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published essays about architecture, building projects, and state imaginaries. See Filip De Boeck's "Inhabiting Oc... More
Formless: A Day at Lima’s Office of Formalization: Supplemental Material
Editor's FootnotesCultural anthropology has published other articles on cities and urbanism, including "Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity i... More
Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand: Supplemental Material
Further ReadingCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles about engagement with spirits as a contemporary phenomenon, including Bhrigupati Singh's... More
Teaching Indigenous Movements in Latin America
Overview Latin America is an extensive region which comprises a vast number of countries, each with distinct cultures, flavors, and stories. However, Latin Amer... More
Teaching Neoliberalism in/of Latin America
In the following series of posts, I will share resources and suggestions for teaching about neoliberalism in Latin America. These resources are aimed primarily ... More
Ethics
During this round of Field Notes, we have invited four scholars to think through the implications of a turn toward ethics and morality in anthropology and to ex... More
Disaster
Today marks two years since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Tohoku region. A string of additional catastrophes— tsunamis and nuclear explosions—closely f... More
