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.
The Global University, Area Studies, and the World Citizen: Neoliberal Geography's Redistribution of the "World": Supplemental Material
Interview with the AuthorDr. Looser arrived at this research topic through studying technology and special economic zones (SEZs), focusing on spaces where neoli... More
Blackouts and Progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia: Supplemental Material
Links from the EssayInternational Rivers EthiopiaGrand Millenium Dam, website that promotes the Grand Millenium Dam and other hydroelectric projects in Ethiopia... More
Piracy, Circulatory Legitimacy, and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Brazil: Supplemental Material
Interview with the AuthorRYAN JAMES: Your article takes the reader through some wide-ranging fieldsites – from an antipiracy NGO promoting a sentimental attachm... More
Witchcraft, Bureaucraft, and the Social Life of (US) Aid in Haiti: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on NGOs, including, Erica Bornstein’s “The Impulse of Philanthropy” (2009), Thomas P... More
Nonself Help: How Immunology Might Reframe the Enlightenment: Supplemental Material
Interview With the AuthorQ: You mention that the self/nonself immunological paradigm does little to rectify major concerns within the field. Can you expand what... More
Water Flowing North of the Border: Export Agriculture and Water Politics in a Rural Community in Baja California: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on inequality in Mexico. See, for example, Peter S. Cahn’s “Consuming Class: Multilevel... More
A Properly Political Concept of Love: Three Approaches in Ten Pages: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published many essays on culture and theory, including: Marisol de la Cadena's "Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the And... More
Pressure: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on citizenship in India, including Francis Cody’s “Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: ... More
Black Goo: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles concerned with naturecultures, including a Special Issue on Multispecies Ethnography... More
Lonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers: Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published other articles on the concept of community, such as Brian Keith Axel’s “The Context of Diaspora” (2004), ... More