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.
Wild Goose Chase: The Displacement of Influenza Research in the Fields of Poyang Lake, China: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published several articles on studies of disease and its securitization. See Andrew Lakoff’s “The Generic Biothreat... More
Screening Room: Collecting in the Collection
From January 14 to February 18, 2015 we screened the premiere of Collecting in the Collection: 46 Inuit Artifacts in the Berlin Ethnological Museum from Franz... More
Charles Briggs on Epidemics, Psychoanalysis, and the Work of Mourning
In this episode the anthropologist Charles Briggs talks with the psychoanalyst Maureen Katz about the human experience of mourning by considering the effects of... More
Screening Room: Jeepney
We hope you were able to enjoy Jeepney! The film has been taken down, but this page will remain up with the filmmaker interview and other teaching resources. F... More
Occupy Wall Street and the Economic Imagination: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on banking crises, debt, and finance, including Nicholas D’Avella’s “Ecologies of Inves... More
“Too Fat to Be an Orphan”: The Moral Semiotics of Food Aid in Botswana: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on humanitarianism, including Tobias Rees’s “Humanity/Plan; or, On the ‘Stateless’ T... More
Muddy Labor: A Japanese Aid Ethic of Collective Intimacy in Myanmar: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on humanitarian aid and its ethical tensions, including Peter Redfield’s “The Unbearabl... More
Becoming a Force in the Zone: Hedonopolitics, Masculinity, and the Quest for Respect on Haiti’s Streets: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnoteCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles dealing with masculinity, including Donna Perry’s “Fathers, Sons and the State: Disci... More
Making Art from Uncertainty: Magic and Its Politics in South African Rugby: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has also published a number of articles on apartheid in South Africa, including Jason Hickel’s “‘Xenophobia’ in South A... More
Laura Moran on Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Australia
In this episode, Laura Moran, a recent graduate from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Queensland talks about how Sudanese young people with re... More