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Some Carry On, Some Stay in Bed: (In)convenient Affects and Agency in Neoliberal Nicaragua: Supplemental Material

Some Carry On, Some Stay in Bed: (In)convenient Affects and Agency in Neoliberal Nicaragua: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published several essays that examine affect and/or materiality. See, for example, Christina Schwenkel’s “Post/Soc... More

Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma: Supplemental Material

Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnote Cultural Anthropology has published a number articles on the temporalities of care, humanitarianism, and philanthropy including Clara Han’s “... More

Why Ethnography Matters: On Anthropology and Its Publics: Supplemental Material

Why Ethnography Matters: On Anthropology and Its Publics: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays that reflect on the uses and futures of ethnographic knowledge, including George Mar... More

Rethinking Public Anthropology Through Epistemic Politics and Theoretical Practice: Supplemental Material

Rethinking Public Anthropology Through Epistemic Politics and Theoretical Practice: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published many articles on activism and social movements, including Kregg Hetherington’s “Beans Before the Law: Kn... More

Tolerated Encroachment: Resettlement Policies and the Negotiation of the Licit/Illicit Divide in an Indian Metropolis: Supplemental Material

Tolerated Encroachment: Resettlement Policies and the Negotiation of the Licit/Illicit Divide in an Indian Metropolis: Supplemental Material

About the Author Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus... More

Ethnography in the Way of Theory: Supplemental Material

Ethnography in the Way of Theory: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on innovative approaches ethnographic research, theory, and writing, including: Anand ... More

Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds, and Persons: Supplemental Material

Speculative Matter: Secular Bodies, Minds, and Persons: Supplemental Material

Editorial Footnotes Cultural Anthropology has published articles about the secular body (see Talal Asad's "Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal P... More

Human Rights As Moral Progress? A Critique: Supplemental Material

Human Rights As Moral Progress? A Critique: Supplemental Material

About the Author Jarrett Zigon is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Born in the U.S and ra... More

Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill: Supplemental Material

Governing Disaster: The Political Life of the Environment during the BP Oil Spill: Supplemental Material

Abstract This article presents an embedded analysis of how scientists and federal officials scrambled to get a handle on the deepwater blowout in the Gulf of Me... More

Traveling Technologies: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa: Supplemental Material

Traveling Technologies: Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa: Supplemental Material

About the Author Antina von Schnitzler is an assistant professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs and an affiliate faculty member in the Departm... More