{"title":"Turning to lines: Writing with multiplicity of exilic memories","authors":"Nassim Zand Dizari","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this flash tip on writing, I suggest drawing and sketching as techniques that allow ethnographers to work through emotionally charged stories when words alone fall short. I share a vignette from my ethnographic research with Iranian newcomer women in Canada, who are living an exilic life and carrying embodied memories of protests both here (in Canada) and there (in Tehran). Through this vignette, I illustrate how pause -made possible through drawing- can become a catalyst for writing.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148462710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notations on concentration and writing","authors":"Petra Rethmann","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70109","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Notations on Concentration and Writing looks at how writing begins in the body and mind of concentration, and how concentration—rather than being found—may be invited in. In an age of YouTube, Instagram, and so many other media, the path to concentration can be difficult. In this piece, I illuminate how concentration can be made, step by step, through practices of attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Between war, languages, and anxiety: Notes on embodied academic writing”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Martynchuk, Olena. 2026. “Between War, Languages, and Anxiety: Notes on Embodied Academic Writing.” <i>Anthropology and Humanism</i> 51(2): e70103. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70103</p><p>In the References section, the author's first name in the following citation was published incorrectly:</p><p>\u0000 <b>Published as:</b>\u0000 </p><p>Tsymbalyuk, Dmytro. 2023. “What my Body Taught me about Being a Scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine in Times of Russia's War of Aggression.” <i>Journal of International Relations and Development</i> 26: 698–709. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00298-y.</p><p>\u0000 <b>It should read:</b>\u0000 </p><p>Tsymbalyuk, Darya. 2023. “What my Body Taught me about Being a Scholar of Ukraine from Ukraine in Times of Russia's War of Aggression.” <i>Journal of International Relations and Development</i> 26: 698–709. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-023-00298-y.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is there to be said?","authors":"Paolo Israel","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This tryptic of song lyrics explores the intersection of real and digital violence in the “new war” in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Each emerges from an encounter, whether physical or virtual, with people and spaces. They are rooted in 20 years of research in the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotions, trauma, and actors' lives vs. objectivity in history writing: Is a compromise possible?","authors":"Tetiana Boriak Dr. Habil. in Historical Sciences","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent history is generally easier to document because of the relative abundance of records when compared with the medieval and even more ancient periods. However, this is only partly true for twentieth-century Ukrainian history, where the postcolonial and posttotalitarian past has resulted in a dearth of twentieth-century sources, a fact often underestimated by researchers. Therefore, writing about contemporary Ukrainian history relies more heavily on oral histories and memoirs. Personal testimonies from ordinary witnesses—rather than officials—raise important questions about the emotions of historical actors and their representation in historiography. This essay reflects my personal challenges in writing about twentieth- and twenty-first-century Ukrainian history, particularly in my focus on major events such as WWII, the Holodomor, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I review the methodologies of researchers studying collectivization and famine in Ukraine and advocate for a greater use of personal sources, as such engagement can provide deeper insight into these historical tragedies in light of the current ongoing war Russia is waging against Ukraine and thus help the narrative to move beyond the dominant Kremlin's neo-imperial perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where the wild rose blooms: A phenology of grounded writing","authors":"Chelsea Rozanski PhD","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70111","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This flash tip reflects on a phenology of grounded writing, emerging through reciprocal attention and embodied observation across four seasons. Drawing on land-based methodologies and creative ethnography, I offer reflections for scholars seeking to write otherwise through the practice of standing in solidarity with two feet in one place.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70111","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“It's a dash-dot.” Tonalities of war-influenced time perception (displaced Ukrainians in Berlin 2022)","authors":"Olha Haidamachuk","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay presents a cultural anthropological approach to temporality and, through an emotional lens, explores perceptions of time and mortality. If “lamentation” (Ricoeur) dominates in one's everyday attitude toward the brevity of life in peacetime, this essay explores how war-displaced Ukrainians' perceptions of time were changed by the full-scale invasion. This essay argues that the war-displaced Ukrainians may perceive time in several ways: as a quantitative, qualitative, static, dynamic, transformative, interactive, or deceptive phenomenon. In addition to representations of time as a <i>cycle</i>, <i>line</i>, or <i>spiral</i>, respondents also explained it as a <i>limit</i>, <i>shortage</i>, <i>fluid reagent</i>, <i>phantom arrhythmia</i>, or <i>power</i>. The analysis highlights that disquieting tonalities were enriched by polyphonic framings, ranging from implicit didactics and creepy jokes of historical cycles in their perceptions of the past to disoriented or desired expectations of something like an inescapable justice in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social hospice: Refuseniks, labors of love, and American homelessness","authors":"Kim Hopper","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70104","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay revisits an episode of insurgent citizenship in the author's late mother's life, one that seemed to have off-putting elements of near farce. She had mounted a door-to-door neighborhood canvass of pennies on behalf of the homeless poor and then kept at it for some time. I try to read the self-imposed constraints on this mendicancy project—the physical labor involved, the pathetic nature of the request, minimal return on effort, and negligible impact on the people of concern—as surface indicators of some shadow purpose in play. Drawing upon anthropological resources, I then try to find a way of decoding this purported subversive agenda. That inept interpretive effort is unexpectedly upset, and the scholastic conceit itself is challenged, when a previously unknown data cache surfaces, one that gives her performance an integrity of its own device.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The senses and the physicality of writing","authors":"Helena Wulff","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70108","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this piece, the senses and the physicality of writing lead the way to flash tips on how to craft a text otherwise. Focus is on my strategies to start writing, push through low points, enjoy the flow, but also to spend time and care on making the exit memorable.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70108","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sienna R. Craig, Kunzom Thakuri, Tsering Bista, Tsering Wangmo
{"title":"Traveling with: Engaging Himalayan elders through pilgrimage","authors":"Sienna R. Craig, Kunzom Thakuri, Tsering Bista, Tsering Wangmo","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This creative ethnographic essay emerges from an ongoing comparative and collaborative research project being conducted with two culturally Tibetan regions of highland Nepal and those from these regions living in urban Nepal and the greater New York City area. Although the broader project is engaging Himalayan elders as well as their families, communities, and caregivers through methods that include demographic surveys, interviews, life histories, and participant-observation, this essay emerges from a process of traveling with a group of Himalayan elders on pilgrimage. Here, the rite of passage that is pilgrimage works both as a method and an ethic for attending to the experiences of an older generation who is bearing witness to profound transformations in their lifeworlds. Traveling with elders becomes both a form of embodied ethnographic knowing and an expression of care. Told as a series of short ethnographic evocations interspersed with expository analysis of similar length along with still photographs, this essay aims to illuminate dynamics of suffering and resilience, loneliness and community, tradition and adaptation, absence and presence that structure Himalayan elder lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148325017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}