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Blackouts and Progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia: Supplemental Material

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Blackouts and Progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia: Supplemental Material

Links from the EssayInternational Rivers EthiopiaGrand Millenium Dam, website that promotes the Grand Millenium Dam and other hydroelectric projects in Ethiopia... More

A Properly Political Concept of Love: Three Approaches in Ten Pages: Supplemental Material

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A Properly Political Concept of Love: Three Approaches in Ten Pages: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published many essays on culture and theory, including: Marisol de la Cadena's "Indigenous Cosmopolitics in the And... More

Water Flowing North of the Border: Export Agriculture and Water Politics in a Rural Community in Baja California: Supplemental Material

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Water Flowing North of the Border: Export Agriculture and Water Politics in a Rural Community in Baja California: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on inequality in Mexico. See, for example, Peter S. Cahn’s “Consuming Class: Multilevel... More

Lonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers: Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use: Supplemental Material

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Lonely Drinking Fountains and Comforting Coolers: Paradoxes of Water Value and Ironies of Water Use: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published other articles on the concept of community, such as Brian Keith Axel’s “The Context of Diaspora” (2004), ... More

Black Goo: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins: Supplemental Material

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Black Goo: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles concerned with naturecultures, including a Special Issue on Multispecies Ethnography... More

Pressure: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai: Supplemental Material

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Pressure: The PoliTechnics of Water Supply in Mumbai: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published numerous articles on citizenship in India, including Francis Cody’s “Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: ... More

Articulating Potentiality: Notes on the Delineation of the Blank Figure in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Supplemental Material

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Articulating Potentiality: Notes on the Delineation of the Blank Figure in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of essays on the life sciences. See, for example, Eva Hayward's "Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup... More

Motivated Markets: Instruments and Ideologies of Clean Energy in the United Kingdom: Supplemental Material

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Motivated Markets: Instruments and Ideologies of Clean Energy in the United Kingdom: Supplemental Material

Editorial FootnotesCultural Anthropology has published a number of articles on markets and economies. See, for example, Smoki Musaraj’s “Tales from Albarado: Th... More

The Past is Made By Walking: Labor Activism and Historical Production in Postcolonial Guadeloupe: Supplemental Material

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The Past is Made By Walking: Labor Activism and Historical Production in Postcolonial Guadeloupe: Supplemental Material

Additional Works By the Author2010. "Reinventing the Mass Strike: Prefigurative Politics in Contemporary Guadeloupe." Interventions: International Journal of Po... More

Sincerity Versus Self-Expression: Modern Creative Agency and the Materiality of Semiotic Forms: Supplemental Material

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Sincerity Versus Self-Expression: Modern Creative Agency and the Materiality of Semiotic Forms: Supplemental Material

Author's CommentsMy interest in the anthropology of creativity emerged out of my own personal biography as a violin player trained in the classical Western musi... More