These Fieldsights sections feature series of ten or more short-form essays, which bring together scholars across institutions and career stages to weigh in on a shared topic. These pieces are reviewed by the editors of Cultural Anthropology.
Capture, Connect, Shift
This Open Book project is a space for experimental, peer-reviewed digital scholarship curated by Cultural Anthropology’s editorial collective under the director... More
Plant Responsability and the Politics of Vegetal Care
The concept of care has become central to work on multispecies relations. In scholarship with vegetal beings, care sometimes involves a situated attunement or e... More
Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. It does so by b... More
Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo, la teorizació... More
Unbuilding
Confronting the entangled legacies of failed infrastructures, toxic materials, and compromised futures, this series opens up the concept of unbuilding as a crit... More
Settler Colonialism: Unsettling Exceptionalisms with and through Israel-Palestine
This forum focuses on the urgent necessity of understanding settler colonialism as an analytic, especially given the recent political assaults on the concept th... More
Alterecologías
En la modernidad, la idea “especie” se ha establecido como la unidad básica para pensar y organizar la ecología. La taxonomía moderna ha generado valiosos avanc... More
Another Season of War in Lebanon
This collection of essays illuminates the seasonality of war in Lebanon (its present and its longue durée), looking at how those who inhabit Lebanon’s many wars... More
Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America
This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a time where fact... More
Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for granted as a natural ... More