ISSUE 26.4 ESSAY SUPPLEMENTALS

From the "Editors' Introduction":
This issue brings together three clusters of essays, each organized around a different theme: water, secularism, and love as a political concept. The genesis and format differ in each case. The essays on water flowed in as independent submissions that we clustered after the fact. Those on secularism emerged from a panel engaging the recent work of Talal Asad and William Connolly on the secular, and were brought to us by the panel organizers, Charles Hirschkind and Matt Scherer. And ‘love as a political concept’ erupted out of the excitement generated by a talk on the subject that our colleague, Michael Hardt, gave at Duke. Soliciting him to write this as a short thought piece for CA, we are fortunate that he agreed as did two commentators, Lauren Berlant and Lawrence Cohen, whom we asked to weigh in—on Michael’s and their own take on the matter—almost overnight.

The November issue also includes a Playlist, featuring recent reads by Bruce Grant, Judith Farquhar, Judith "Jack" Halberstam, George Marcus, Donald Moore, and Diane Nelson.

Editors' Statement
Anne Allison and Charlie Piot
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 511-513.

WATER

Lonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers: Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use
Martha Kaplan
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 514-541.
Supplemental Material

Pressure: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai
Nikhil Anand
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 542-564.
Supplemental Material **With Interview**

Water Flowing North of the Border: Export Agriculture and Water Politics in a Rural Community in Baja California
Christian Zlolniski
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 565-588.
Supplemental Material

Black Goo: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins
Stuart McLean
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 589-619.
Supplemental Material **With Interview**

SECULARISM

Introduction
Charles Hirschkind and Matthew Scherer
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 620.

Landmarks in the Critical Study of Secularism
Matthew Scherer
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 621-632.

Is There a Secular Body?
Charles Hirschkind
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 633-647.

Some Theses on Secularism
William E. Connolley
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 648-656.

Thinking About the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics
Talal Asad
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 657-675.

LOVE

For Love or Money
Michael Hardt
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 676-682.
Supplemental Material

A Properly Political Concept of Love: 3 Approaches in Ten Pages
Lauren Berlant
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 683-691.
Supplemental Material

Love and the Little Line
Lawrence Cohen
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 692-696.
Supplemental Material

Cultural Anthropology Playlists
Cultural Anthropology November 2011, Vol. 26, No. 4: 697-706.