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.
Affect and Rearticulating the Racial “Un-Sayables”: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous essays on race, including, Deborah A. Thomas’s "Democratizing Dance: Institutional Transformati... More
The Closet, Its Conventions, and Anti-Racist Criticism: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous essays on race, including, Deborah A. Thomas’s “Democratizing Dance: Institutional Transformat... More
Race in Africa Today: A Commentary: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published articles on global racial ideologies, including Bayo Holsey's "Black Atlantic Visions: History, Race, an... More
Race/Sex Theory ‘Toward a New and More Possible Meeting’: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on sexual identity and queer studies, including Florence E. Babb’s "Out in Nicaragua:... More
Nigga: The 21st-Century Theoretical Superhero: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of articles that focus on race and blackness, including Jacqueline Nassy Brown's "Black Liverpo... More
Michael Fisch on Tokyo Commuter Train Suicides
We're happy to announce the launch of the Society for Cultural Anthropology's new podcast, AnthroPod! Each episode we'll be interviewing anthropologists about t... More
Screening Room: Savage Memory
Thanks for coming to our second Screening Room series. We hope you were able to enjoy the film! Savage Memory has been taken down, but this page will be up wi... More
Studying Unformed Objects
. . . it is not enough for us to open our eyes, to pay attention, to be aware, for new objects suddenly to light up and emerge out of the ground.—Michel Foucaul... More
Beginning a Sketch of Accumulation by Dispossession in Contemporary Cambodia
Accumulation by dispossession is on a freight train in Cambodia. Protected from capitalist economic development under the tutelage of Vietnam from 1979 to 1989,... More
Invisibilities
Many scholars have noted vision’s privileged place within modern knowledge production, and contemporary technologies—from Google Earth to video cameras for lapa... More