The very first form of web content to be produced by the SCA, Supplemental posts extend the reach and impact of articles published in Cultural Anthropology through author interviews, discussion questions, and other materials not included in the text of the article.

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Grinding the Soul: An Interview with EuyRyung Jun

Grinding the Soul: An Interview with EuyRyung Jun

In her article “Grinding the Souls: Politics of Interspecies Pity and the Labor of Care in a South Korean Animal Shelter,” EuyRyung Jun explores the gendered dy... More

Gaining Voice through Injury: An Interview with Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

Gaining Voice through Injury: An Interview with Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes’s “Gaining Voice through Injury: Voice and Corporeality in Animal Rights Activism in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico” explores the relationship be... More

Crafting the State: An Interview with José Ciro Martínez and Omar Sirri

Crafting the State: An Interview with José Ciro Martínez and Omar Sirri

In their article, “Bureaucraft: Statemakers in Amman and Baghdad,” José Ciro Martínez and Omar Sirri explore how the state comes into being through the skilled ... More

The Fraying of Community: An Interview with Ashwak Sam Hauter

The Fraying of Community: An Interview with Ashwak Sam Hauter

Ashwak Sam Hauter’s “Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen” explores the psycho-spiritual dimensions of health and medicin... More

Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High

Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High

Mette High’s Cultural Anthropology article “Utopias of Oil: Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Ambition in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry” explores how private e... More

Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson

Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson

In his article, “Evasion: Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro,” David C. Thompson focuses on evasion from prison custody in Brazilian... More

Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull

Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull

Matthew S. Hull's article on the effects of bringing a corporate call center into the bureaucratic operations of the Punjab police offers a new perspective on t... More

When Busier is Not Better: An Interview with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

When Busier is Not Better: An Interview with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela's well-written and thought-provoking paper addresses dead on the question of temporal regulation, establishing a departure from the ... More

Ethnographic Photography : An Interview with Camilo Leon-Quijano / Ethnographie Photographique: Entretien avec Camilo Leon-Quijano

Ethnographic Photography : An Interview with Camilo Leon-Quijano / Ethnographie Photographique: Entretien avec Camilo Leon-Quijano

(Avec traduction en français) Camilo Leon-Quijano’s “Why do ‘Good’ Pictures Matter in Anthropology?” explores the ethnographic use of photography and visual rep... More

The Governance and (Bio)Economization of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Dr. Marthe Achtnich

The Governance and (Bio)Economization of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Dr. Marthe Achtnich

This post should be read alongside the Colloquy edited by Marthe Achtnich, in particular Marthe Achtnich's two articles “Mobile Livings: On the Bioeconomies of ... More