What is it like to study the skeletons of giant rats and Homo floresiensis in Jakarta? How can a humble clam tell us how sea ice affected hunters in the Aleutian Islands? How do you use the contents of a 19th-century privy to piece together the lives of the women who once inhabited a Boston brothel? “Field Trips” delves into the latest ideas and research in anthropology and highlights how anthropologists interact with the materials and people we study.