This interview with Professor Adam Kuper of Brunel University took place in London in July 2000. It is divided into three sections. In the first, Professor Kuper outlines the background to and summarises the main arguments of his most recent book, Culture. The Anthropologists’ Account (Kuper 1999b), relating these to the issues of postmodernism, biological determinism and the ‘intellectually impoverished heritage’ of social anthropology in Britain. He then moves on to discuss in turn the relationship between theory and ethnography, ethical issues in fieldwork and the nature of anthropology as a cross-cultural, comparative discipline. Finally, Kuper considers the role played by EASA in the development of a sense of ‘common project’ among European anthropologists, addressing in particular the history and place of British social anthropology within this enterprise, as well as the question of language.