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.
Who Is Ethnography For?: An Interview with Lachlan Summers
In this interview, Lachlan Summers reflects on the craft of his article and offers a compelling critique of liberal tendencies and imaginaries in contemporary a... More
Discarded Candidates: An Interview with Dr. Tanya Jakimow
In her article “Discarded Candidates: Waste as Metaphor in Local Government Elections in Australia (and Elsewhere),” Tanya Jakimow explores Australian electoral... More
Constructive Security: A Conversation with Sahana Ghosh
Sahana Ghosh’s article ethnographically explores soldiering in independent India, focusing on the Border Security Force or BSF. Drawing on feminist thought and ... More
Good Bureaucrats and God: An Interview with Maira Hayat
In this interview, Maira Hayat reflects on her ethnographic and theoretical engagements with bureaucrats and their everyday practices within Punjab’s irrigation... More
In/visible Routers: An interview with Ann-Christin Zuntz
Ann-Christin Zuntz’s “Human Routers” offers a powerful peripheral vision of contemporary (im)migration, border regimes, and agency by shifting attention from re... More
It’s an Ordinary Game—If We Forget the Ghost: An Interview with Paolo Heywood
In this interview, Paolo Heywood further discusses the uneasy art of forgetting in Predappio, a town still bound to Mussolini’s shadow despite its attempts to a... More
Quantifying Vulnerability: An Interview with Malay Firoz
In his article, “Quantifying Vulnerability: Humanitarian Datafication and the Neophilia of Integrated Power,” Malay Firoz interrogates the increasing dataficati... More
The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin
Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to the contempora... More
Paradoxical Recognition and Solidarity: An Interview with Fiori Berhane
In the following author interview, Fiori Berhane reflects on what she calls the “paradox of humanitarian recognition” among the Eritrean community she works wi... More
Grinding the Soul: An Interview with EuyRyung Jun
In her article “Grinding the Souls: Politics of Interspecies Pity and the Labor of Care in a South Korean Animal Shelter,” EuyRyung Jun explores the gendered dy... More