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.
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
No One Wants To Be the Candy Man: Ambivalent Medicalization and Clinician Subjectivity in Pain Management: Supplemental Material
Interview With the Authors1. Your examination of the medicalization of pain took place at VA hospitals. These insitutions service individuals whose pain (and po... More
The Aquatic Invader: Marine Management Figuring Fishermen, Fisheries, and Lionfish in The Bahamas: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn this engaging narrative, Amelia Moore uses the invasive and exotic lionfish as a way to study how marine conservation management frames the... More
The Museum of Resilence: Raising a Sympathetic Public in Post-Welfare Chicago: Supplemental Material
Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of number articles on the built environment, including Donald S. Moore’s ‘Subaltern Struggles a... More
From Socialist Modern to Super-Natural Organicism: Cosmological Transformations Through Home Decor: Supplemental Material
Author's Publications2011 "The Materiality of the New Family House: Postsocialist Fad or Middle-class Ideal? City and Society, 23(1): 18-41.2011 "Polgári Lakásk... More