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.
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
Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnote Cultural Anthropology has published a number articles on the temporalities of care, humanitarianism, and philanthropy including Clara Han’s “... More
Some Carry On, Some Stay in Bed: (In)convenient Affects and Agency in Neoliberal Nicaragua: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published several essays that examine affect and/or materiality. See, for example, Christina Schwenkel’s “Post/Soc... More
"Xenophobia" in South Africa: Order, Chaos, and the Moral Economy of Witchcraft: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published several articles on violence and identity politics including Ruchi Chaturvedi's "'Somehow it Happened': ... More
Homeownership in Israel: The Social Costs of Middle-Class Debt: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnote Cultural Anthropology has previously published numerous works on homeownership, credit, and debt, including: Krisztina Fehervary’s article “F... More