Contributed Content

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.

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Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to the relevant section editor.

Incorporating Photography Exhibits in the Anthropology Classroom: A Review of Elena Geroska's Traces

Visual and New Media Review

Incorporating Photography Exhibits in the Anthropology Classroom: A Review of Elena Geroska's Traces

If you're anything like me, you secretly enjoy when people leave the curtains of their living room windows open, allowing you to gain a two-second-long glance i... More

Screening Room: Roots of Love

Visual and New Media Review

Screening Room: Roots of Love

Welcome to our first Screening Room Presentation Each month we will screen online ethnographic films and other documentaries relevant to anthropological concer... More

Online Resources and Blogging as Pedagogical Tools

Teaching Tools

Online Resources and Blogging as Pedagogical Tools

The lives of our students, and our lives as professors, have increasingly moved online. This can be a source of anxiety as we struggle not only to stay in step ... More

Eviction Time in the New Saigon: Temporalities of Displacement in the Rubble of Development: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Eviction Time in the New Saigon: Temporalities of Displacement in the Rubble of Development: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a variety essays on the economies of Asia. See for example, Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang’s “Biopolit... More

Tokyo’s Commuter Train Suicides and the Society of Emergence: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Tokyo’s Commuter Train Suicides and the Society of Emergence: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous essays on culture and infrastructure which have been gathered in the Curated Collection on Infra... More

Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand: Supplemental Material

Further ReadingCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles about engagement with spirits as a contemporary phenomenon, including Bhrigupati Singh's... More

Formless: A Day at Lima’s Office of Formalization: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Formless: A Day at Lima’s Office of Formalization: Supplemental Material

Editor's FootnotesCultural anthropology has published other articles on cities and urbanism, including "Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity i... More

Post/Socialist Affect: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Post/Socialist Affect: Ruination and Reconstruction of the Nation in Urban Vietnam: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published essays about architecture, building projects, and state imaginaries. See Filip De Boeck's "Inhabiting Oc... More

Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Performing Royalty in Contemporary Africa: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on the practical and theoretical intersections of politics, aesthetics, and cultural... More

Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention: Supplemental Material

Supplementals

Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published articles on subject formation in the context of humanitarian intervention (see, for example, Ramah McKay'... More