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.
An Interview with Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki
Foreign Parts is an eighty-minute documentary filmed between 2008 and 2010 by Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki, produced with the support of Harvard’s Sensory... More
How to Research Affect Ethnographically: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
How are anthropologists and other ethnographers to study the seemingly ephemeral and slippery category of affect? This was the question taken up by the three pr... More
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