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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Post-Compassionate Aid and Emergent Forms of Support: An Interview with Daniela Giudici

Post-Compassionate Aid and Emergent Forms of Support: An Interview with Daniela Giudici

In the following author interview, Daniela Giudici reflects on her ethnographic engagement with the asylum management system in Bologna, Italy. Drawing our atte... More

Ethnographic Time and the Border: An Interview with Malini Sur

Ethnographic Time and the Border: An Interview with Malini Sur

In this conversation, Scott Schnur sits down with Malini Sur to discuss the importance of engaging time from an ethnographic perspective during fieldwork. Discu... More

Diapers and Other Queer Objects: An Interview with George Paul Meiu

Diapers and Other Queer Objects: An Interview with George Paul Meiu

In this conversation, Juliana Friend invites George Paul Meiu to reflect on technologies of citizenship in Kenya. Meiu’s fieldwork traces discourses about diape... More

Knowing and Making the Self: An Interview with Andrea Ford

Knowing and Making the Self: An Interview with Andrea Ford

In this conversation, Kristin Gupta sits down with Andrea Ford to discuss her ethnographic engagements with birth doulas and elite childbearing people in the Ba... More

Spirits and Substances of Modernity: An Interview with Andrea Wright

Spirits and Substances of Modernity: An Interview with Andrea Wright

In the following author interview, Andrea Wright reflects on her ethnographic and historical engagements with Indian labor migration to the Gulf. While flows of... More

Digitally Mediated Intimacies: An Interview with Molly Hales

Digitally Mediated Intimacies: An Interview with Molly Hales

Robyn Taylor-Neu: You outline in your article how you’re departing from detachment models and how these models seemingly haunt the discourse, so I’m interested ... More

What Is an Interruption? An Interview with Lisa Stevenson

What Is an Interruption? An Interview with Lisa Stevenson

Sander Hölsgens: “Looking Away” (Stevenson 2020) opens and ends with a narrative description of a portrait of a woman named Kautaq Joseph. What is it about imag... More

The Sensible, the Sensate, and Dissensus: An Interview with Sareeta Amrute

The Sensible, the Sensate, and Dissensus: An Interview with Sareeta Amrute

Anar Parikh: You open the article with a detailed description of the landscape: where the bucolic Pacific northwest meets the tech geographies of the Seattle su... More

A Sudden Shock of Care: An Interview with Aidan Seale-Feldman

A Sudden Shock of Care: An Interview with Aidan Seale-Feldman

Lachlan Summers: The research for this article emerged in a shocking way—the Nepal earthquakes of 2015—rather than being part of your original research design. ... More

The Intimate Life of Populism: Interview with Bo Kyeong Seo

The Intimate Life of Populism: Interview with Bo Kyeong Seo

Ola Galal: Populism gives rise to multiple and intertwined modes of being—multiple becomings—that are best captured as you argue through a micro history of Ta... More