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.
Radmilla's Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on music, performance, and creativity in relation to individual subjectivity. These i... More
Socialities of Indignation: Denouncing Party Politics in Karachi: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published several recent articles on violence, including Ruchi Chaturvedi’s ‘“Somehow it Happened”: Violence, Culp... More
Field of Difference: Limitations of the Political in Ontological Anthropology
Ontological anthropologists have moved beyond reflexive anthropology because they are fully aware and intentionally involved in choosing which analytic they use... More
The Form of the Otherwise
A quiet question was raised at the end of the roundtable on “The Politics of Ontology” about where writing fit into the discussion. The absence of the topic was... More
Care
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 d... More
The Ontological Spin
This post is a distilled version of a longer essay, published in American Ethnologist as "Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique." The latest sal... More
"Otherwise Anthropology" Otherwise: The View from Technology
Recent thinking on the politics of ontology invites commentary on the ontological sensibility of what Elizabeth Povinelli (2011) calls “an anthropology of the o... More
Sport
Sport has recently attracted close ethnographic interest as an object of discipline, a realm of popular culture through spectatorship, and through the contemp... More
Cast Aside: Boredom, Downward Mobility, and Homelessness in Post-Communist Bucharest: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published essays about affect of boredom, waiting, and social exclusion. See João Biehl’s “Ethnography in the Way ... More
The Precarious Present: Wageless Labor and Disrupted Life in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on precarity including Noelle Molé’s “Existential Damages: The Injury of Precarity ... More