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.
Animacy: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
Animacy Panelists: Allen Feldman; Anand Pandian; Kathleen Stewart; Hugh Raffles Discussant: Timothy Choy To Timothy Choy’s thinking, describing animacy is alway... More
Walking Around in Lauren Berlant's Elliptical Life: A Review of Culture at Large 2012
On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life Organizers: Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) and Zeynep Gürsel (Macalester College) Featured Guest: Laure... More
Night Falls Silent in Damascus
It’s 2 a.m. and the night falls silent outside his window. Finally the sounds have stopped. The computer screen shimmers brightly with a stream of Twitter feeds... More
Two Publics in a Mexican Border City: Supplemental Material
Additional ReadingsCody, Francis. 2011. "Publics and Politics." Annual Review of Anthropology. 40: 37-52.Fraser, Nancy. 1992. Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Co... More
The Time of Anthropology: Notes from a Field of Contemporary Experience: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published multiple articles on contemporary anthropological theory and ethnographic writing, including: Stuart McLe... More
Dengue Mosquitos Are Single Mothers: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on human-animal relations and multi-species ethnography including Eva Hayward's, "Fi... More
A Kidnapping in Basra: the Struggles and Precariousness of Life in Post-invasion Iraq: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of number articles on violence, including Danny Hoffman’s ‘The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monro... More
From Socialist Modern to Super-Natural Organicism: Cosmological Transformations Through Home Decor: Supplemental Material
Author's Publications2011 "The Materiality of the New Family House: Postsocialist Fad or Middle-class Ideal? City and Society, 23(1): 18-41.2011 "Polgári Lakásk... More
The Museum of Resilence: Raising a Sympathetic Public in Post-Welfare Chicago: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of number articles on the built environment, including Donald S. Moore’s ‘Subaltern Struggles a... More
The Aquatic Invader: Marine Management Figuring Fishermen, Fisheries, and Lionfish in The Bahamas: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn this engaging narrative, Amelia Moore uses the invasive and exotic lionfish as a way to study how marine conservation management frames the... More