{"title":"Vardo: On keeping our journeys safe","authors":"Stephen A. Linstead","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This poem is a personal response to Romany culture and history, including consideration of the legacy of the holocaust or <i>Porraijmos</i> (devouring) and the socioeconomic diversity of contemporary Roma classes. It does, however, draw on anthropological and sociological theory that supports the significance of the lyric approach to the representation of affect in culture and its virtues over the typical narrative approach. It is set at the annual horse fair of Appleby-in-Westmorland in the North-West of England, between the Pennine Hills and the Cumbrian Lake District. Drawing on two decades of fieldwork and archive research using primary and secondary data, and extensive conversations with key informants, it unfolds over the course of a single day, beginning and ending in a vardo, the iconic “bow-top” caravan, and teases the metaphor of the journey which is core to Roma culture. It is partly written in Romany language, or cant, to convey the importance of rhythm and music in the culture, its style inspired by Tony Gatlif's 1993 film <i>Latcho Drom</i> (Safe Journey) which implies that the historical Roma journey, though often joyful, has been and remains anything but safe.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147684150","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":"Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice","authors":"Risa Cromer","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring <i>Dobbs</i>, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in <i>Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization</i>. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new. Drawing on autoethnographic notes from the process of “doctoring” <i>Dobbs</i>, I show how erasure art makes core anthropological commitments of reflexivity, accountability, multiplicity, and citation visible on the page. I further argue that erasure art extends anthropological craft by modeling knowledge-making as connective, able to hold multiple interpretations at once, and collaborative. Situating these claims within feminist scholarship, multimodal anthropology, and reproductive justice advocacy, the essay argues that erasure art reflects anthropological method as well as intervenes in abortion politics by challenging the authority of legal language and bringing reproductive justice visions into view.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569228","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":"Greyhound, or an ethnography of lost souls","authors":"David Farrow","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Greyhound bus synthesizes mobility and stuckedness. In the play of travel and breakdown, I find a way to understand how the mobility of capital meets the stuckedness of people. In the process of being gutted by venture capitalists, the Greyhound company is an increasingly fragile place for travelers with few options to make their way through the United States. At the same time, the instability of this travel option makes it a voyeuristic portal into wandering souls. I draw from my experiences riding the Greyhound to understand how a soul wanders and waits, searching for home and finding itself free and alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568143","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 YouTuber","authors":"Kimberly Hassel","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the age of digital content curation and creation, what happens when the ethnographer unwittingly becomes an internet celebrity? This piece of creative nonfiction follows an anthropologist's fateful meeting with a YouTuber during her fieldwork on digital sociality in Tokyo. The YouTuber agrees to participate in an interview for her dissertation with a catch: she <i>must</i> appear on his YouTube channel, which features foreigners eating Japanese cuisine. What seems to be an innocuous exchange turns into an anxious array of musings, as the anthropologist underestimates the popularity of the YouTuber's channel and finds herself garnering more attention than she had anticipated. “The YouTuber” highlights the shifting terrain of ethnographic encounters and digital hybridity, including the potential nature of “exchange relationships” with interlocutors who engage in digital content creation. This piece contemplates the parameters of “doing” an ethnography of the digital in contemporary Japan, which can be extended to the digital in other contexts. The characters, locations, and encounters are based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork on digital sociality in Japan, which took place in Tokyo between August 2019 and August 2020, and remotely between August 2020 and October 2021.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147643228","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 Right","authors":"Zoe Charlotte Stewart","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147315492","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":"Dream is an offshore flame: Notes on archaeology and belonging","authors":"Orlan Yuan Syshui","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70081","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Set within an archaeology lab in Dunedin, Aotearoa, this creative non-fiction piece traces the search for dwelling through the meticulous, repetitive labor of everyday practice. The narrative finds belonging not as a static identity, but as a continuous, tactile engagement with the material world. By drifting between winters in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, the story weaves together the sorting of ancient middens with a memory of London's contested urban spaces—where a graffiti-covered bridge and a tented sanctuary challenge the boundaries between public architecture and private survival. Through this grounding of sensory reflections in the physical act of sorting, the work unfolds the broader human struggle to find permanence in a transient world, and suggests how the act of creating order from debris might serve as a universal strategy for re-rooting oneself within the river of time. Ultimately, the narrative transforms the intimate labor of an individual into a lens for exploring the ways we might find and inhabit a sense of belonging amidst the displacement and chilly isolation of modern life.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70081","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147299875","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":"Held in a story: Relatability across plates and places","authors":"Anna Notsu","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This piece explores the power and ambivalence of storytelling through a dinner with Jemimah, a counseling psychologist and a trained educator with a keen interest in using storytelling as pedagogy in Northeast India. As the evening unfolds in her dining room, stories and memories are exchanged, revealing how relatability is not inherent but actively constructed by both teller and listener. Through reflexive visits to my ethnographic moments, the essay reflects on how shared recognition can spark connection but also carries risks of assimilation, particularly within anthropology's colonial legacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147275016","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":"Family album","authors":"Deniz Yonucu","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Family Album</i> follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house overlooking the Bosporus. What begins as a celebration of working-class resistance takes an unexpected turn when Murat shares his family album. Through this intimate domestic encounter, the narrative explores the complex intersections of class solidarity, state violence, and necropolitics in Turkey. The story examines the ethical dilemmas faced by those who document social movements when confronted with contradictions that challenge simplistic narratives of working-class struggle.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146256335","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":"Your father bought me for 8000 yuan","authors":"Noël Um-Lo","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I wondered how many other North Korean girls were bought by Chinese men in this same parking lot, along this same reproductive labor corridor, its spiny tendrils burrowing into villages in Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Shandong provinces. Maybe your <i>nainai</i> mentioned you were born of an “unconventional marriage.” But our type of marriage was quite common. No one explained to me why, but eventually I found out: In the 1970s, Korean women fled farms for cities, leaving South Korea's rural men stranded. South Korea's solution was to import <i>Joseonjok</i> women from China. Busloads of rural Korean bachelors shopped for <i>Joseonjok</i> brides from matchmakers who peddled girls like produce at market. By the time I crossed the Tumen, those Chinese provinces had their own crisis. The men who had lost their women to rural Koreans needed wives of their own. And like a pathetic answer to prayers, we appeared.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147275044","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}
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