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.
"Your Eyes Are Green like Dollars": Counterfeit Cash, National Substance, and Currency Apartheid in 1990s Russia: Supplemental Material
Editorial Overview In “‘Your Eyes are Green Like Dollars’,” Alaina Lemon analyzes Russians’ relationships with currency in the 1990s. She demonstrates how disco... More
Northwestern Tanzania on a Single Shilling: Sociality, Embodiment, Valuation: Supplemental Material
Interview With Brad Weiss [The author chose to respond to the three questions asked together, rather than individually. The questions are reproduced below, foll... More
The Writing on the Walls: The Graffiti of the Intifada: Supplemental Material
Editor's OverviewIn this article, Julie Peteet offers an early example of the ways in which anthropologists have wrestled with the production (and implications)... More
Beyond Writing: Feminist Practice and the Limitations of Ethnography: Supplemental Material
Interview With the AuthorCA: What is the purpose of telling stories?I don’t see stories as having any singular purpose. In different contexts, stories have diff... More
Fear as a Way of Life: Supplemental Material
Editor's OverviewGreen's analysis of the chronic experience of insecurity among women in Guatemala's Xe'caj region explores the structure of everyday fear in a ... More
Somatic Modes of Attention: Supplemental Material
Interview with Thomas Csordas Editors: Please provide a description of what affect means to you. Is it distinct from "emotion"? If so, how?Thomas Csordas: It ha... More
The Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory: Supplemental Material
Interview With the AuthorCA: What is the purpose of telling stories?Is there, in fact, a purpose in telling stories? Clearly not. Stories have many purposes, an... More
Death and Memory: From Santa María del Monte to Miami Beach: Supplemental Material
Interview With the AuthorCA: What is the purpose of telling stories? What do stories want?We tell stories because we’ve had an experience, or witnessed somethin... More
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