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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The Fraying of Community: An Interview with Ashwak Sam Hauter

The Fraying of Community: An Interview with Ashwak Sam Hauter

Ashwak Sam Hauter’s “Fright and the Fraying of Community: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen” explores the psycho-spiritual dimensions of health and medicin... More

Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High

Fieldwork in the Capitalist Utopias and Financial Futures of U.S. Oil and Gas: An Interview with Mette M. High

Mette High’s Cultural Anthropology article “Utopias of Oil: Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Ambition in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry” explores how private e... More

Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson

Of Absences, Escapes, and Evasions in/from Incarceration: An Interview with David C. Thompson

In his article, “Evasion: Escapes and the Predicament of Incarceration in Rio de Janeiro,” David C. Thompson focuses on evasion from prison custody in Brazilian... More

Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull

Unbounding Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Matthew S. Hull

Matthew S. Hull's article on the effects of bringing a corporate call center into the bureaucratic operations of the Punjab police offers a new perspective on t... More

When Busier is Not Better: An Interview with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

When Busier is Not Better: An Interview with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela's well-written and thought-provoking paper addresses dead on the question of temporal regulation, establishing a departure from the ... More

Ethnographic Photography : An Interview with Camilo Leon-Quijano / Ethnographie Photographique: Entretien avec Camilo Leon-Quijano

Ethnographic Photography : An Interview with Camilo Leon-Quijano / Ethnographie Photographique: Entretien avec Camilo Leon-Quijano

(Avec traduction en français) Camilo Leon-Quijano’s “Why do ‘Good’ Pictures Matter in Anthropology?” explores the ethnographic use of photography and visual rep... More

The Governance and (Bio)Economization of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Dr. Marthe Achtnich

The Governance and (Bio)Economization of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Dr. Marthe Achtnich

This post should be read alongside the Colloquy edited by Marthe Achtnich, in particular Marthe Achtnich's two articles “Mobile Livings: On the Bioeconomies of ... More

In the Weeds: Teaching Weedy Anthropology and an Interview with Caroline E. Schuster

In the Weeds: Teaching Weedy Anthropology and an Interview with Caroline E. Schuster

For this supplementals post, Janita Van Dyk and Caroline E. Schuster created a sample syllabus, which includes discussion questions, pedagogical exercises, and ... More

Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia

Thinking and Teaching Corruption, Caste, and the State with Namita Dharia

Namita Vijay Dharia’s “Embodied Urbanisms” explores the metabolic nature of corruption discourse in the context of rapid real estate development in Gurugram, In... More

Mundane Fascism and Laboring Love: An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan

Mundane Fascism and Laboring Love: An Interview with Radhika Govindrajan

Prerna Srigyan invites Radhika Govindrajan to discuss the importance and implications of bringing in the politics of loving and laboring to understand the munda... More