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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Dengue Mosquitos Are Single Mothers: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work: Supplemental Material

Dengue Mosquitos Are Single Mothers: Biopolitics Meets Ecological Aesthetics in Nicaraguan Community Health Work: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on human-animal relations and multi-species ethnography including Eva Hayward's, "Fi... More

A Kidnapping in Basra: the Struggles and Precariousness of Life in Post-invasion Iraq: Supplemental Material

A Kidnapping in Basra: the Struggles and Precariousness of Life in Post-invasion Iraq: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of number articles on violence, including Danny Hoffman’s ‘The City as Barracks: Freetown, Monro... More

Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain't: Supplemental Material

Ethnography Is, Ethnography Ain't: Supplemental Material

Questions for Classroom Discussion1. When communities, such as the AHIJ in Jackson's article, take their representation into their own hands by developing sophi... More

Excelente Zona Social: Supplemental Material

Excelente Zona Social: Supplemental Material

Questions for Classroom Discussion1. Why do you think Taussig titles this piece “Excelente Zona Social,” which translates roughly as “excellent social area” (or... More

Ethnography in Late Industrialism: Supplemental Material

Ethnography in Late Industrialism: Supplemental Material

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

Precarity's Forms: Supplemental Material

Precarity's Forms: Supplemental Material

Interview with the Author... More

Twenty-five years is a long time: Supplemental Material: Supplemental Material

Twenty-five years is a long time: Supplemental Material: Supplemental Material

Interview with the AuthorHemangini Gupta: You have a DFES from the Yale School of Forestry and Environment Studies. Can you tell us a little bit about how you c... More

Anthropology and Fiction: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh: Supplemental Material

Anthropology and Fiction: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh: Supplemental Material

Cultural Anthropology has published a number of essays about anthropology and literature, including "Bombay Talkies, the Word, and the World: Salman Rushdie's S... More

Feeling Historical: Supplemental Material

Feeling Historical: Supplemental Material

Editorial OverviewIn this reflective essay, James Clifford revisits Writing Culture - a seminal anthropological text published in 1986, which helped to bring qu... More

The Legacies of Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form: A Sketch: Supplemental Material

The Legacies of Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form: A Sketch: Supplemental Material

Related ReadingFischer, Michael M. J. 2009. Anthropological Futures. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Matsutake Worlds Research Group. 2009. "A New Form of Col... More