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{"title":"Beyond therapeutics: Psychosis and poetics","authors":"Anjana Bala","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, I examine how poetry serves as a form of semiotic rearrangement for those undergoing episodes of what psychiatry calls psychosis. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, I explore how poetry's capacity to hold intemporal experiences facilitates an ambiguous economics of meaning that serves as a semiotic container for supposedly disordered speech. While poetry is frequently recognized as a therapeutic tool for its expressive process, my analysis extends beyond discussions of expression, release, and meaning-making. Instead, I shift the focus toward the potential of rearrangement that gives form to the ambiguous terrain of everyday life for those experiencing episodes of psychosis. Furthermore, when exploring experiences of psychosis, traditional anthropological modes of inquiry fall short. Poetry offers anthropologists an alternative mode of ethnographic engagement—one that may foster a more ethical and intentionally opaque approach to representation, description, and relationality. The opacity of poetry may illuminate something unconcealed about anthropology itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740136","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":"Co-creating real fictional characters: Virtual ethnofabulation","authors":"Elliott Tilleczek,&nbsp;Wesley Brunson","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70022","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Where do characters come from?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And where do characters go?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And why are they here?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, there's like this art gallery? You know? And like a person who like…goes? To the gallery? You know?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, I do know. The person drives there from their two bedroom bungalow in a 2015 Toyota Camry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The car needed a jump this morning and their neighbor was happy to oblige; the driver was only slightly embarrassed by the Tim Horton's graveyard in the footwell of the front seat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The person jumping the car (the “neighbor”) didn't really know which terminals on the batteries to place the cables' alligator mouths, but it worked out.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The person's name is Nicholas (not the neighbor, her name is Gertie), and they quite enjoyed their morning drive.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nicholas was giving Gertie a ride to the town's only art museum. Gertie was an amateur needleworker and wanted to see some of the textiles. The museum wasn't much, but proportionally to the size of the town, it was quite an institution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The oak trees lining the gallery's driveway loomed large and sentinel-esque over the Toyota as it rolled toward the golden art deco front double-doors. Gertie's leg was bouncing in anticipation, and Nicholas felt only a fart bubbling in his stomach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nicholas said, “Art to me always just looks like an accident, like stained linen.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gertie, sensing Nicholas' attitude, stopped him in the main foyer and said: “Two rules of galleries: only go where your interest takes you, and don't force anything.” Gertie gestured to the open gallery. “Take your time, or let your time take you, babe,” she laughed. Nicholas sighed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick liked Gertie. They had been friends since college when they met in Chess Club. Nick didn't especially like chess either, but he knew that clubs were a good way to make friends. He didn't feel attracted to Gertie, in like a sexual way, but when he saw her doing things she liked or that she was interested in—like her needlework or taming the wild rose bushes in her house's front yard with the semi-dull clippers she had borrowed from him years ago and had never bothered to return or that he had never bothered to ask for back—in those moments, he felt a strong desire to have his attention on her.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gertie was similarly sexually dis-attracted to Nicholas, but unlike herself, Nicholas had no real &lt;i&gt;spark&lt;/i&gt; moments, no moments of sublime attention or losing himself in a project. Like once she had taken a first-year college class on Religion and Art, and when the professor was lecturing on the ecstasy exhibited in Bernini's &lt;i&gt;The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa&lt;/i&gt;, she couldn't pay attention to the words he was saying but only to how his face and upturned body seemed to mirror &lt;i&gt;Saint Teresa's&lt;/i&gt; blissed-out look. Gertie studied people for those echoes. But Nicholas was, for the most part (to Gertie's eyes, at least), rather dull. Dull wasn't bad, and Gertie felt safe alongside dull, but where Gertie shined occasional","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740384","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":"Poetry and the Caribbean: Coral Gardens, Jamaica, 2010; What Justice; Academic Tourism","authors":"J. Brent Crosson","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740385","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":"Boneset/break","authors":"Dr. Charis Boke","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This poem emerged in the confluence of my ethnographic work with plant medicines, Western herbalists, and Truong Tran's poetry. It is one attempt to represent the halting, hurting way that stories, truths, and impacts of plant medicines unfold in settler colonial contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740294","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 war dwells","authors":"Nicolás Díaz Letelier","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay traces the entangled legacies of political violence, memory, and kinship by following the life of the author's father, whose adult years unfolded under Chile's dictatorship (1973–1990). Through intimate conversations and ethnographic attention to domestic life, it explores how closeness to and eventual disillusionment with state violence sediment into everyday gestures, silences, and hauntings, composing the inheritance of dictatorship as a lived condition. As familial love and political history converge, this work considers how the shared labor of remembrance may reopen pathways for healing—and how anthropology may itself become a practice of reciprocal reckoning.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740407","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":"Desecrating tribal autonomy: Investigating subjugation of Indian tribes through facts and fictions","authors":"Agnisri S,&nbsp;Dr. S. V. Karthiga","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70015","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The fundamental rights of people in a nation not only serve the necessities of its subjects as citizens but also as humans deserving primary self-supporting conditions. It is inevitable that these rights for the tribal communities in India are violated by external forces on a regular basis over various levels. On such a scale, violations demanding crucial counteract could include life under bonded labor systems, and forced sex workers among the tribals. The concept might be alien to many, yet the same is true for tribal and economically weaker communities across the nation. The persistence of such a system against the enforcement of the law is due to its unreachable implementation in remote areas of the state and nation. Social workers and representatives like Mahaswetha Devi, Pankaj Sekhsaria, G.N. Devi, etc., working among different societies, communities and cultures, help and represent the subjugated and marginalized in their fight for basic rights against social hierarchy, gender dominance, false accusations, etc. Many such take the help of stories and literature as a medium to fight against injustice. This article attempts to investigate a few literary representations of tribal plights and their historical and cultural evolution based on factual analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740285","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":"Love beads","authors":"Colleen Ballerino Cohen","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this piece of creative non-fiction, I use a countercultural artifact, love beads, to reflect on what life was like on an American countercultural commune in the 1960s and 1970s and to construct a sense of the style, visions, and hopes of the times. Not intended to be reflective of the counterculture writ large, the piece centers on one countercultural commune, its members, and their experiences. The beads take us through the beginnings of the counterculture in the mid 1960s, to the social experiments of the San Francisco Diggers, the performance politics of the Yippies, and a commune that was inspired by both.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740286","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":"A cootie catcher/fortune teller to recruit “English Native Teachers” to teach in China","authors":"Yixuan Wang","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740103","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":"Oltre il Verde della Campagna. Beyond the Countryside Green","authors":"Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70016","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740102","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":"Exploring prison through memory: Stories from a women's prison in Beirut","authors":"Lara Sabra","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70007","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Lebanon, carceral spaces are located in abandoned buildings, underground parking lots, and other such structures. These spaces are marked by neglect: mattresses are exposed to mold, infections spread rampantly, and food and water are scarce resources. Yet in spite of this marked brutality, Lebanon's prisons remain underrepresented in the literature and absent from public awareness. My article seeks to undo this invisibility, centering on the possibilities of life within Lebanon's carceral network through the memories of one formerly incarcerated woman named Sana. From Sana, I learned about the mutual, reciprocal, and intimate bonds that she forged with other incarcerated women. In my article, I mobilize creative ethnographic tools to explore how Sana remembers the caring, kin-like, and relational bonds she forged with other incarcerated women despite the suppression of care endemic to carceral spaces. Drawing on the anthropology of care, I argue that these relationships point to cracks in the workings of carceral power or small spaces of alterity where prisoners collaborate with one another to transform everyday life inside the prison. In the end, this article helps fill a void within the scholarship on incarceration from which the experiences of incarcerated women, particularly in Lebanon, are still missing.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144740104","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}