Another important field for anthropologists is certainly the lifeworld of one of the several new institutions, that came with modernity:
I take here exzerpts from "French DNA" (by P.Rabinow) as an example of fieldwork in a biotechnological lab
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/701506.html:
On page 5, he describes the site of his fieldwork as
- an "heterogeneous zone where genomics, bioethics, patients groups, venture capital, nations, and the state meet."

Furthermore he describes this heterogenous zone as a lifeworld:
"Such a common place, a practiced site, eruptive and changing yet strangely slack, is filled with talk of good and evil, illness and health, spirit and flesh. It is full of diverse machines and bodies, parts and wholes, exchanges and relays."

The research interest is now the discourse inside this lifeworld and its consequenses:
"For those mortally ill, or told they are so, all this discourse, all these diverse things, can produce a good deal of anxious waiting and solicitation. It can also produce a range of other effects and affects in the world. I became intrigued by the futures being carved out of the present. Their representations ranged from ones full of dangers to others of a potential luminosity. Today, as yesterday, partisans of both visions abound. Partisans that they are, they find their antagonists' arrogance, misplaced emphases, failures of nerve, and sheer blindness trying. Amid all the discord, however, all parties agree that the future is at stake and that there is a pressing obligation to do something about it."