The Guest Editorials were brief essays written for the first two editions of Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition by several well-known anthropologists. They touch on a wide range of issues in the field, and represent what their authors would like introductory students to know about anthropology. Excerpts from several of the Guest Editorials are to be found in recent editions of the text in the In Their Own Words features, but a number of people have asked about the original essays in their full version. We are pleased to make them available on the web.