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.
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
Wrapped in Plastic: Transformation and Alienation in the New Finnish Economy: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on mental and bodily disorders, their emergence, changes and attendent subjectivitie... More
Comprehensive Immigration Policy . . . for Whom?
Last week, I interviewed Adam, an undocumented day laborer from Mexico, who has been in the United States less than ten years and who is now sheltered after liv... More
On Accidental Recoveries and Predictable Disasters: The Haitian Earthquake Three Years Later
On Saturday, January 12, 2013, I found myself in a traffic standstill on the outbound lanes of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. As the wind and th... More
Teaching Occupy
Overview of Theme Adapted from the Introduction to “Hot Spots: Occupy, Anthropology and the 2011 Global Uprisings”, guest edited by Jeffrey S. Juris (Northeaste... More
Backward Design for Syllabus Development
Problem 1) You have been asked to teach a new course and you don’t know where to begin. What books or articles should you use? What should the midterm and final... More
Pedagogical Tools: Bloom's Taxonomy
Problem When you pose a question to your class, do you ever get blank stares in return? Ever wonder why some of your questions "work" whereas others don't? Are ... More
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