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.
Teaching Muslim Immigration and Integration in France
Recently, the issue of Muslims living in and emigrating to various parts of Europe has been receiving much attention as difficulties with xenophobia and racism ... More
Tobias Rees on Global Health and Humanity
On today's show, Tobias Rees discusses current understandings of humanity in global health and calls for us to rethink our categories of analysis. Last year, St... More
Photography and Photo-Elicitation after Colonialism: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on postcolonialism in Africa including: Damian Droney’s “Ironies of Laboratory Work du... More
Behind the Screens: Jenna Burrell
Welcome to the first post of the Visual and New Media Review’s video blog, Behind the Screens. This blog shines light on how anthropologists are exploring the... More
What is a Situation?: An Assemblic Ethnography of the Drug War: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published articles on different aspects of the global drug war, including Ieva Jusionyte’s “States of Camouflage” (... More
The Work of Waiting: Love and Money in Korean Chinese Transnational Migration: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on the perception and making of time and temporalities, including Jocelyn Lim Chua’s... More
The Sociopolitical Lives of Dead Bodies: Tibetan Self-Immolation Protest as Mass Media: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has previously examined the issue of self-immolation as protest in Tibet in a 2012 Hot Spots series, which featured twe... More
“Where there is fire, there is politics”: Ungovernability and Material Life in Urban South Africa: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on material politics, including Antina von Schnitzler’s “Traveling Technologies: Inf... More
Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on the body and embodiment, including Thomas Csordas’ seminal article “Somatic Modes of... More
Publishing Otherwise
Earlier this summer, the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) announced my appointment as the next managing editor of Cultural Anthropology. As an anthropolo... More