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.
Economies of Consumption, Abandon, and Shifting Moral Worlds: An Interview with Peter Lockwood
In the following author interview, Peter Lockwood discusses how land and kinship intertwine, desires that interface between economies of consumption and abandon... More
Social Life of Death: An Interview with Anjali Krishan
In her article, “Recalling the Suicide: Affective Storytelling and the Ethics of ‘Good’ Womanhood,” Anjali Krishan examines how middle-class married women in De... More
Fieldwork, Writing, and Teaching China: An Interview with Yue Liao
In his article “Bitter Sweetness: Compelling Greenhouse Farming and the Inter-Mobility among Middle-Aged Farmers in North China,” Yue Liao explores the lives of... More
These Compulsive Assertions of Contingency: An Interview with Cameron Hu
In this interview, Cameron Hu considers the entailments of modernity’s—and anthropology’s—insistence on historical contingency. What follows is a lightly edited... More
Sustaining Containability: A Conversation with Elana Resnick
In this interview, Elana Resnick reflects on the evolution of her research on recycling and waste in Bulgaria. She highlights the longer historical contexts sha... More
On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on pollution and toxicity... More
Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers
In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in contemporary a... More
Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow
In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Australian electoral... More
Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh
Sahana Ghosh’s article ethnographically explores soldiering in independent India, focusing on the Border Security Force or BSF. Drawing on feminist thought and ... More
Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat
In this interview, Maira Hayat reflects on her ethnographic and theoretical engagements with bureaucrats and their everyday practices within Punjab’s irrigation... More