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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Thinking through Medical Aid-in-Dying with Anita Hannig

Thinking through Medical Aid-in-Dying with Anita Hannig

This post is meant to be read alongside Anita Hannig’s article Author(iz)ing Death: Medical Aid-in-Dying and the Morality of Suicide published in the February 2... More

Teaching Ontologies and Activism with Sophie Chao

Teaching Ontologies and Activism with Sophie Chao

The pedagogical approaches presented in this post and the author interview with which it concludes highlight the article’s contributions to two important conver... More

Teaching Horizoning and Responding to Climate Change with Adriana Petryna

Teaching Horizoning and Responding to Climate Change with Adriana Petryna

This post is designed as a resource for use with Petryna’s article to explore the temporal politics and ethics of climate change and emergency response with adv... More

Searches for Livability: An Interview with Adriana Petryna

Searches for Livability: An Interview with Adriana Petryna

Pablo Seward Delaporte and Sonia Grant: You write that American fire managers have inherited an image of controllable wildfire, which contrasts with both how we... More

Our Amphibians, Ourselves: An Interview with Emily Wanderer

Our Amphibians, Ourselves: An Interview with Emily Wanderer

Ashley Elizabeth Drake and Lachlan Summers: Axolotls are, as you note, exceptionally charismatic creatures that have captured the attention of restoration ecolo... More

The Claims of Kinship: An Interview with Alyssa Miller

The Claims of Kinship: An Interview with Alyssa Miller

Ola Galal: In this article, you argue that Tunisian families employ kinship, both as genealogy and as an affective relationship, to make political claims on beh... More

Fields of Relevance: An Interview with Perry Sherouse

Fields of Relevance: An Interview with Perry Sherouse

Alexandra Vieux Frankel (AVF): This article is rich with visual media, from posters to photographs to stills of YouTube videos. The placement of these images ... More

At the Limits of Selfhood: An Interview with Kevin Lewis O’Neill

At the Limits of Selfhood: An Interview with Kevin Lewis O’Neill

Andrés Romero: In this article, you demonstrate how pastoralism as an institutional project is kept alive through the inversion of value around the figure of th... More

Becoming Infrastructural: An Interview with Michael Degani

Becoming Infrastructural: An Interview with Michael Degani

Scott Ross (SR): In the article, you draw on Sianne Ngai’s argument regarding zaniness’s emergence in response to capitalism’s constant revolutionizing, and you... More

Methods for Many Anthropocenes with Andrew S. Mathews

Methods for Many Anthropocenes with Andrew S. Mathews

This Teaching Tools post is designed as a resource for using the article to explore visual techniques for ethnographic thought and to consider the environment a... More