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.
Brand “Piracy” and Postwar Statecraft in Guatemala: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesIn this engaging article, Thomas examines the practices of postwar statecraft in Guatemala through the lens of fashion, in particular the pro... More
Wrapped in Plastic: Transformation and Alienation in the New Finnish Economy: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on mental and bodily disorders, their emergence, changes and attendent subjectivitie... More
Counterfeiting the Nation? Skopje 2014 and the Politics of Nation Branding in Macedonia: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published many articles on citizenship and neoliberalism, including "Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subj... More
Existential Damages: The Injury of Precarity Goes to Court: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesIn this original article, anthropologist Noelle Molé studies the phenomenon of "mobbing" in Italy. Mobbing is a type of harassment in the wor... More
Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on Japan, including Lieba Faier’s ‘Runaway Stories: The Underground Micromovements o... More
Beans Before the Law: Knowledge Practices, Responsibility, and the Paraguayan Soy Boom: Supplemental Material
Media from ArticleFrom the author: The following series of pictures were part of a set of images that began to circulate in 2005 and 2006 as the two court cases... More
Ascertaining Deadly Harms: Aesthetics and Politics of Global Evidence: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on medical knowledge practices. See, for example, Carlo Caduff's "The Semiotics of Sec... More
Brands and Their Surfeits: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on counterfeits, including Nils Bubandt's "From the Enemy's Point of View: Violence,... More
Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on labor dynamics in neoliberal contexts, including Alexander Dent's "Piracy, Circul... More
Comprehensive Immigration Policy . . . for Whom?
Last week, I interviewed Adam, an undocumented day laborer from Mexico, who has been in the United States less than ten years and who is now sheltered after liv... More