{"title":"I dream all the time that I'm there: Oral histories of Ukrainian flooded villages","authors":"Iryna Koval-Fuchylo Dr Philology","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How can the ancient history of a small homeland be transferred to a new, uninhabited location? What did it mean, for instance, for Ukrainian peasants from the 1960s to the 1980s to relocate an entire village to a designated plot of land—be it a field or steppe? I analyze autobiographical narratives, particularly interviews about forced resettlement from villages flooded during the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Dnipro and Dniester rivers in Soviet Ukraine in the 1960s and 1980s. To do this, I use folkloristic methods to focus on the story itself, the context of its telling, and the narrator's stance. Together, these interviews and memorial activities create what I call a resettlement narrative—a shared collection of memories through which former villagers interpret their displacement. I explore common themes such as the reasons for resettlement, notable actors and locations, experiences of relocation, and the cultural forms in which memory is preserved, including annual reunions, travels to the flooded villages, books, memorial signs, and photo exhibitions.</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":"148324435","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":"Portable anchors of home","authors":"Lidia Kuzemska","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70105","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The essay asks: how can you bring home with you on a journey? Even on the move, we feel attached to different familiar places, relationships, symbols, and stories. For migrants, home is in the making and becomes more of an inner process rather than a physical exterior. Yet even this inner home needs tangible anchors you can touch, smell, hug, or taste—small homemaking objects this essay calls “portable anchors of home.” As migrants' lives become increasingly transnational, one may have a multitude of anchors (shallow or deep) in multiple real and virtual locations, which can be unanchored and re-anchored. The essay argues that our “portable anchors of home” help us to stay grounded, even when we are physically on the move and allow us to be mobile without feeling detached from people and places that make us feel at home.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324662","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":"Between war, languages, and anxiety: Notes on embodied academic writing","authors":"Olena Martynchuk MA","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Producing academic work under conditions of persistent anxiety, fragmented attention, and moral doubt is a practice suffused with tension. This essay explores academic writing as an embodied practice shaped by uncertainty, anxiety, and Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. As a Ukrainian scholar writing in more than one foreign language while living abroad, I examine how writing unfolds across languages and uneven positionalities—between proximity and distance to war, between privilege and responsibility. The essay engages with embodied writing as one facet of an unfolding living condition, not as a methodological choice. I explore how affective and sensory experiences—tensions, hesitation, and interruption—directly shape the writing process. I also critically reflect on the academic demand for experimental forms, highlighting the gap between calls for experiments and the lack of possibilities and infrastructures to support such work. By situating writing within the rhythms of mobility, precarity, and war, I argue that we should understand academic writing as a situated, embodied, and uneven practice, rather than a stable, “purely” research activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324391","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":"Intimacy","authors":"Joseph A. Coyle","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324204","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 mermaids have gone extinct","authors":"Caroline Harper New","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These poems emerge from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Maroantsetra, Madagascar in the summer of 2025, where I was studying the Betsimisaraka dialect. During this time, I befriended “R,” a yogurt-seller from the countryside and fellow outsider, with whom I spent much of my time exchanging lessons in English for lessons in Betsimisaraka. These poems trace the reciprocal intimacies of linguistic exchange, translation, and fieldwork companionship, and in doing so open up broader questions of belief, naming, and truth. In a city marked by rhythms of rain, flooding, and birdsong, these poems also attend to the layered human and nonhuman rhythms of daily life in northeastern Madagascar. Surrounded by rapidly shrinking rainforests, they are framed by ecological precarity—an anxiety which evaded daily conversations but underlaid my everyday observations. Formally, the poems experiment with endings that become beginnings, in an attempt to evoke the circular temporality of Malagasy storytelling.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324135","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":"Postcards from Home","authors":"Abby Kalpana Kambhampaty","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This project explores how children of immigrants in the United States understand and carry the places their parents are from. Drawing on a series of in-depth ethnographic interviews with students whose families immigrated from Guatemala, El Salvador, India, and Romania, this work translates shared narratives into a collection of prose poems. Participants were asked about their parents' early lives, their own relationships to language, memory, and family stories, and how they make sense of inherited histories. The interviews revealed a common inheritance of love, pain, memory, and silence—an inheritance that shapes identity formation and cultural belonging. Each poem in <i>Postcards from Home</i> reimagines these narratives in a creative form, using lyric language to trace themes of longing, resilience, cultural navigation, and intergenerational memory. This collection contributes to the growing body of literature that resists reducing immigrant identity to narratives of either trauma or triumph, instead honoring its contradictions, ambiguities, and intimacies.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282535","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":"Curled in the Back Seat","authors":"Sama Al-Maqbali","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324160","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 classroom that listens to the world","authors":"Pramana","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This poetic reflection explores the emotional and moral tensions experienced in a world increasingly shaped by global conflicts and collective uncertainty. Through the imagery of a classroom observing a troubled world, the poem invites readers to contemplate how education can become a space for nurturing empathy, critical reflection, and the ethical imagination necessary for sustaining peace. Rather than portraying peace merely as the absence of violence, the poem presents it as an ongoing human practice learned through listening, dialogue, and recognition of shared vulnerability. By situating global conflict within the pedagogical setting of a classroom, the work highlights the role of education in cultivating awareness of interconnected human experiences and in encouraging future generations to engage with the world responsibly. The poem reflects on how the circulation of news about wars and geopolitical tensions influences the emotional landscape of learners, while also suggesting that educational spaces can offer alternative narratives grounded in compassion and intercultural understanding. In doing so, the piece contributes to conversations in peace education by demonstrating how poetic expression can function as a reflective medium that fosters deeper awareness of humanity's collective longing for peace and the ethical responsibilities involved in imagining more just and non-violent futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282666","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 influence of cultural repertoire metaphors on a specific peer group's romantic relationships","authors":"Peyman Ahmadi","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What does it mean to love, and to be loved, in a world shaped by both mystical metaphors and modern individualism? This article presents a narrative ethnography of a friendship network of Iranian youth (the “Hejrat” group), with whom the author lived and participated between 2018 and 2022. It identifies two dominant affective orientations: one where love is considered part of life, and another where life itself is lived for love. These shifting repertoires activate under pressures of family, law, class, and gender. They are shaped by contrasting cultural grammars: mystical-poetic traditions that emphasize longing, sacrifice, and transcendence, and contemporary frameworks grounded in autonomy, equality, and mutual respect. The analysis traces how metaphors from Persian Sufi literature—such as <i>talab</i> (longing) or <i>feraq</i> (separation)—continue to structure emotional lives, often producing intense but fragile attachments. In contrast, more secular repertoires enable the cultivation of dialogic and resilient relationships. The article argues that romantic love is not merely a private experience but a moral practice where cultural metaphors, ethical selves, and existential stakes converge. It contributes to debates in the anthropology of emotion, love, and embodiment by showing how literary traditions, social conditions, and everyday life co-construct affective subjectivities.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148274754","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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