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.
The Emergence of Indigeneity: Public Intellectuals and an Indigenous Space in Southwest China: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published many essays on China, including Shao Jing’s “Fluid Labor and Blood Money: The Economy of HIV/AIDS in Rura... More
Remains: to be Seen. Third Encounter between State and "Customary" in Northern Mozambique: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on neoliberalism in Africa. See, for example, Julie Livingston's "Suicide, Risk, and I... More
The Double Bind of American Indian Need-Based Sovereignty: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays that examine how indigenous groups have been positioned in the United States. See Paul... More
American Stiob: Or, What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in the West: Supplemental Material
Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on U.S. political culture. See, for example Joseph Masco's “"Survival is Your Business... More
The Antisocial Profile: Deception and Intimacy in Greek Psychiatry: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn the February 2010 issue of Cultural Anthropology, Elizabeth Anne Davis examines the role of deception and lying in psychiatric care in Gree... More
Physical Training, Ethical Discipline, and Creative Violence: Zones of Self-Mastery in the Hindu Nationalist Movement: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn the February 2010 issue of Cultural Anthropology, Arafaat A. Valiani examines projects of self-mastery within neighborhood physical trainin... More
Cosmopolitanism, Remediation, and the Ghost World of Bollywood: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn the February 2010 issue of Cultural Anthropology, David Novak examines how the process of remediation – "the repurposing of media for new c... More
Branding the Mahatma: The Untimely Provocation of Gandhian Publicity: Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn "Branding the Mahatma: The Untimely Provocation of Gandhian publicity," William Mazzarella explores the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi's actions ... More
Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging 'City-Corporation': Supplemental Material
Editorial OverviewIn his article in the February 2010 issue of Cultural Anthropology, "Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging 'C... More
Cosmopolitanism, Remediation, and the Ghost World of Bollywood
In this article, David Novak examines how the process of remediation—"the repurposing of media for new contexts, the repurposing of one medium in another"—of As... More