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{"title":"Dismantling the Shed. A Chronicle","authors":"Hannah Wadle","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is the festive beginning of spring in a small village and sailing tourism resort in the Masurian Lake District, Northeast Poland: Catholic Easter is followed by Majówka, the first tourism weekend in May. Caught up between the rituals of Easter and those of tourism in the village, you, Zenon, a middle-aged man born there, lose grip on the communities you used to be part of. Your eviction from the world you know and from the future you have been longing for proceeds at inexorable speed, while you rear up against it, rebelling with your body and imagination. The events are chronicled by me, Sophie, an anthropologist on fieldwork and a woman in her mid-twenties, who stays at your parents' house. I become a witness to the dismantling of your shed and of the longings that were stored inside.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740326","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":"“Queer Sonic Fingerprint”—Listening to speculative queer relations in ethnographic collections","authors":"Isabel Bredenbröker,&nbsp;Adam Pultz Melbye","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Queer Sonic Fingerprint is the multimodal result of a collaboration between anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker and sound artist Adam Pultz Melbye. Our work embarked from the question of how the sonic as a register of making and experiencing can inform queer relations in the context of ethnographic collections.</p><p>All work in ethnographic collections was informed by conversations with curators about the ethical appropriateness of engaging with artifacts. This included considerations of indigenous intellectual property, sacred functions, and cultural belonging statuses of artifacts. We have chosen to engage with artifacts where no conflict of interest could be identified to the best of our own and the curator's knowledge. We are aware that this knowledge may not be comprehensive.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740327","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":"Beyond the footnote: Citation as disruption in creative anthropology","authors":"Priyanka Borpujari,&nbsp;Ian M. Cook,&nbsp;Çiçek İlengiz,&nbsp;Fiona Murphy,&nbsp;Julia Offen,&nbsp;Johann Sander Puustusmaa,&nbsp;Eva van Roekel,&nbsp;Richard Thornton,&nbsp;Susan Wardell","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70025","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Why begin here? Why this story, this tone, this trace of Bohannan's work? Because this essay is about creative citation, and about the stakes of form—what we borrow, what we honor, what we let speak through us. The passage above is not an ornament. It is not a clever Easter egg for anthropologists who happen to have read &lt;i&gt;Return to Laughter&lt;/i&gt;. It is an opening argument, delivered in the language of literary mimicry. It performs the very citational ethics this essay advocates: citation as entanglement, not extraction; as homage, not possession; as a quiet form of transmission that speaks to influence, resonance, and kinship between texts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And yes, it is disorienting. That, too, is deliberate. Creative work often is. Unlike academic citations, which promise clarity and legibility, creative references resist that neatness. They pull at something deeper: recognition, unease, curiosity. The discomfort here is not a failure—it is an opening. A way to signal that we are about to enter a conversation not about how to cite, but &lt;i&gt;why&lt;/i&gt; to cite differently. And what becomes possible when we do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Return to Laughter&lt;/i&gt; was one of the earliest recognized attempts to smuggle the real contradictions of fieldwork—its absurdities, its ambiguities, its ethical failures—into narrative form. It turned anthropological knowledge into fiction not to fictionalize the truth, but to show how unstable, relational, and storied the truth always already was. We borrow it here not to revive a canon, but to unsettle it. To take that early experiment in form and let it resonate inside new terrain: a smuggling route, a borderland, a different kind of field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This act of adaptation becomes a kind of “unfootnoted” citation—a citation not of content, but of &lt;i&gt;method&lt;/i&gt;. A way of saying: form matters. Mood matters. Lineage matters. What if our citational practices could hold all that, too?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, we begin here: with mimicry as a method. With a borrowed opening that neither claims nor conceals its origin, but lets it shimmer in a new context. From here, we will unfold what it might mean to reference creative work not just as evidence, but as atmosphere, rhythm, rupture. We will ask what citation might become if we allowed it to breathe. To echo. To feel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so, we turn, slowly, toward the tangle. Because to cite is never merely to reference; it is to trace and retrace the filaments of an epistemic web, a web that binds and blinds in equal measure. Citation is architecture: scaffolding the edifice of legitimacy, holding up who gets to be seen as foundational, whose words endure, whose absence goes unnoticed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These absences are not incidental. They're structural, a consequence of how power circulates—who gets remembered, who gets misfiled, who gets called decorative, and who gets called theoretical. Citation is not only the history of ideas—it is the history of exclusion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In creative anthropology, these exclusions take on another ","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740094","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":"Ms. MaNDy's adventures in wonderland: A review","authors":"Rich Thornton","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740174","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":"Sending an open love letter from Germany to Palestine","authors":"Author: Anonymous","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a confession letter to a past love, I reflect how our intimate relationship has affected my perception of the geopolitical conflict in Israel–Palestine. Writing from personal experiences and taking a feminist approach, I argue that entering an intimate relationship with a Palestinian man allowed me to question the biases I had acquired through Germany's politics of memory culture and the silences and taboos it has created. Living in the West Bank and being in a romantic relationship with a Palestinian man led me to witness the borders inscribed on his body and mind, uncovering the walls that have barred and “protected” me from acknowledging Palestinian suffering. Sharing a life and love with him, the borders inscribed on my partner's body became perceptible to me as they affected our relationship. I was suddenly confronted with the violence of borders I was taught to ignore. But I also learnt about resisting its violence together. As he and I undid the wall of segregation between us, my understanding and sense for Palestinian suffering sparked doubts regarding my home country's dogmatic politics toward its Holocaust memory culture as its current conception results in unquestionable support for Israel's dehumanization and brutalization of Palestinians.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740176","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":"Worlds on fire: Multimodality as resistance","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740390","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":"Of an ongoing crisis: Ethnographic poems","authors":"Theodoros Rakopoulos","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740389","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":"Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide","authors":"Jerome Arrow","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same <i>kinds</i> of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense-making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder. Key to the production of meaningful narratives about contested facts is the skill with which tellers entextualize them. By asking how meaning is formulated in the absence of a meaningful death, I reflect upon a fundamental discordance between legal and nonlegal actors' narrative needs in the wake of homicide. The research involves my experiences after the murder of my aunt on New Year's Eve, 2019. I examine the ongoing narrative work of my family across funeral preparations and courtroom dramas. The courtroom presents a concrete example of distinct entextualization processes between the narratives of legal and nonlegal actors and demonstrates how these distinctions afford different kinds of meaning to events. Drawing upon techniques of narrative analysis, I analyze my family's expressions of loss to understand the complex ways in which co-victims rearticulate meaning in their lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740410","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":"Exploring mortuary beliefs and traditions: The burial practices of Nagas in highland Northeast India","authors":"Taliyanger Changkiri","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Death had been central to Naga society, and such practices formed a significant part of their worldview. The Nagas incorporate materials from their environment into their funerary culture, which has evolved over time. With the coming of Christianity and, along with it, Western education, there had been several documentations on the socio-cultural life of the Nagas by both early ethnographers and indigenous scholars. However, independent studies on death and its aspects have been rare. This paper aims to provide an overview of mortuary variations, nature, material aspects, and their relationship with society and individuals among the Nagas. It will also explore changes in mortuary patterns and their adaptability to new waves of change. The paper would incorporate data collected from the various literary works on the Nagas by both colonial ethnographers and indigenous writers, along with data collected from personal fieldwork and interviews conducted.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740409","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":"My Sister Malati is not a witch","authors":"Amrita Saikia","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The story is loosely based on accounts of rape and witch-hunting I came across during my fieldwork in Kokrajhar, Assam, India. It is set against the backdrop of insurgency, armed conflicts, and peace accords signed in Assam in the past. Although I have used original names of places and festivals, this work is a piece of fiction.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740097","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}