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.
Pedagogical Tools: In-Class Activities
Problem You’re stuck in a rut and bored—you can’t think of any other way to present the material besides lecturing from your notes or a PowerPoint.Your students... More
Entangled Finance, Karen Ho, and a Genuinely Free Lunch
It might be tempting, especially for an anthropologist who thinks a lot about finance, to frame the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association a... More
Contact/Access
For our first round of Field Notes, we have asked our contributors to explore how they arrived at all the "first times" that pepper the training and fieldwork o... More
Rituals of Mourning in the Public Sphere: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
How do various emotional responses emerge out of rituals of public mourning? This was the question examined in various contexts by the panel “Mass Mourning: Obj... More
How to Research Affect Ethnographically: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
How are anthropologists and other ethnographers to study the seemingly ephemeral and slippery category of affect? This was the question taken up by the three pr... More
An Interview with Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki
Foreign Parts is an eighty-minute documentary filmed between 2008 and 2010 by Véréna Paravel and J. P. Sniadecki, produced with the support of Harvard’s Sensory... More
Animacy: A #AAA2012 Panel Review
Animacy Panelists: Allen Feldman; Anand Pandian; Kathleen Stewart; Hugh Raffles Discussant: Timothy Choy To Timothy Choy’s thinking, describing animacy is alway... More
Walking Around in Lauren Berlant's Elliptical Life: A Review of Culture at Large 2012
On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life Organizers: Eleana Kim (University of California, Irvine) and Zeynep Gürsel (Macalester College) Featured Guest: Laure... More
Night Falls Silent in Damascus
It’s 2 a.m. and the night falls silent outside his window. Finally the sounds have stopped. The computer screen shimmers brightly with a stream of Twitter feeds... More
Two Publics in a Mexican Border City: Supplemental Material
Additional ReadingsCody, Francis. 2011. "Publics and Politics." Annual Review of Anthropology. 40: 37-52.Fraser, Nancy. 1992. Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Co... More