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.
Feeling Historical: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn this reflective essay, James Clifford revisits Writing Culture - a seminal anthropological text published in 1986, which helped to bring qu... More
Ethnography in Late Industrialism: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays that reflect on the uses and futures of ethnographic knowledge, including George Marcu... More
Scientific Sovereignty: How International Drug Donation Programs Reshape Health, Disease, and the State: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on biomedical regimes, including Angela Garcia’s "The Elegiac Addict: History, Chron... More
Kinky Empiricism: Supplemental Material
Editors' FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on ethics and reflexivity in anthropological research including George Marcus's "The End... More
The Headless Horseman of Central India: Sovereignty at Varying Thresholds of Life: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published several excellent essays on theories of culture, sovereignty, subalternity, and religious and secular mod... More
The Unbearable Lightness of Expats: Double Binds of Humanitarian Mobility: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on NGOs, including Michael Hathaway’s “The Emergence of Indigeneity: Public Intellec... More
The Semiotics of Security: Infectious Disease Research and the Biopolitics of Informational Bodies in the United States: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on security, including Celia Lowe’s “Viral Clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia” (2010... More
Afterlives: Humanitarian Histories and Critical Subjects in Mozambique: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on humanitarianism, including Erica Bornstein’s "The Impulse of Philanthropy" (2009)... More
Turning the Clock Back or Breaking with the Past?: Charismatic Temporality and Elite Politics in Côte d'Ivoire and the United States: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on time, including Clara Han’s “Symptoms of Another Life: Time, Possibility, and Dom... More
Pentecostal Body Logics: Cultivating a Modern Sensorium: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on sensory culture, including Brad Weiss’s “Making Pigs Local: Discerning the Sensor... More