This month, Field Notes invites four scholars to consider the theme of care. What has anthropology contributed to the study of care? What does it provoke? How does care and its associated processes interact, constrain, or influence social relationships?

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Care: Provocation

Care: Provocation

Since these are Field Notes, let’s take up the question: what is the field of care? Care, many have argued, does not follow universal principles but must be si... More

Care: Translation

Care: Translation

In 1995, I stood in the cavernous shadows of a linear accelerator treatment facility talking to a woman with advanced and fungating breast cancer. Her breast ... More

Care: Deviation

Care: Deviation

As Emily Yates-Doerr observes, the “field” of care is variously situated, ever-contextual, and overall, expansive. It follows, then, that care manifests in wa... More

Care: Integration

Care: Integration

Integration is an interesting provocation for thinking about care. Rooted etymologically in oneness (integer, integrity), the word posits it not as origin or es... More