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.
Disaster
Today marks two years since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Tohoku region. A string of additional catastrophes— tsunamis and nuclear explosions—closely f... More
Affect
Ruminations on affect, the passions, and emotion have intrigued students of the human experience for centuries. As early as Durkheim's descriptions of collectiv... More
Counterfeiting the Nation? Skopje 2014 and the Politics of Nation Branding in Macedonia: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published many articles on citizenship and neoliberalism, including "Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subj... More
Brand “Piracy” and Postwar Statecraft in Guatemala: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesIn this engaging article, Thomas examines the practices of postwar statecraft in Guatemala through the lens of fashion, in particular the pro... More
Material Interventions: Indonesian DIY Fashion and the Regime of the Global Brand: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on labor dynamics in neoliberal contexts, including Alexander Dent's "Piracy, Circul... More
Brands and Their Surfeits: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on counterfeits, including Nils Bubandt's "From the Enemy's Point of View: Violence,... More
Ascertaining Deadly Harms: Aesthetics and Politics of Global Evidence: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on medical knowledge practices. See, for example, Carlo Caduff's "The Semiotics of Sec... More
Beans Before the Law: Knowledge Practices, Responsibility, and the Paraguayan Soy Boom: Supplemental Material
Media from ArticleFrom the author: The following series of pictures were part of a set of images that began to circulate in 2005 and 2006 as the two court cases... More
Dreamwork: Cell Phone Novelists, Labor, and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on Japan, including Lieba Faier’s ‘Runaway Stories: The Underground Micromovements o... More
Existential Damages: The Injury of Precarity Goes to Court: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesIn this original article, anthropologist Noelle Molé studies the phenomenon of "mobbing" in Italy. Mobbing is a type of harassment in the wor... More