{"title":"Israeli democracy threatened under right-wing extremists: A “native anthropologist's” perspective from 2023","authors":"Moshe Shokeid","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12506","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12506","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This narrative offers a personal and impressionistic account of a few major historical transformations of Israeli society seen through the lens of ethnographic observation. Anthropologists are trained to observe and analyze the “other”, whether individuals or groups, situated within the limited borders of space and time without judging their subjects' moral conduct in terms of their own ethical norms. That prescriptive guideline has been called into question in Geertz's iconic account of revisiting his old fields in Indonesia and Morocco, claiming that it was not only the ethnographer’s field sites that had changed but also the ethnographer himself and the discipline of anthropology. Geertz, one leading voice of anthropology, nevertheless adhered to “normative” ethnographic reporting. The present account is informed by the author's decades of ethnographic research, including, at a few critical moments, observations on the complex Israeli national saga. But—unlike my earlier ethnographic reports—the following captures the perspective and interpretations of the anthropologist as informant, that is, taking the role of an engaged Israeli. Note also that my political-ideological orientation is considered as on the left of Israeli politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"49 2","pages":"105-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.12506","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139597171","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":"Care as tyranny: Miscellaneous observations","authors":"Sjaak van der Geest, Coleta Platenkamp","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12507","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12507","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article focuses on undesired care transgressions that violate the intimacy, autonomy, and humanity of patients, pregnant women, and older people. Undesired care that hurts patients is referred to as “violence,” “abuse,” and “dehumanization.” This can take different forms: physical, verbal, and emotional, as well as deliberate negligence. We have dubbed this type of transgressive care “tyranny.” The data for this article are derived from a wide variety of sources: research articles, personal documents sharing care experiences, ethnographic observations, novels, a celebrated movie, and a TV series. Five conceptual clarifications of the occurrence of tyrannical care are proposed in the concluding discussion.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"49 2","pages":"93-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.12507","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139615611","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":"Hildaland, or bringing the ice: Reflections on missing persons, Intermittent Islands, and the ethnography of uncertain presence","authors":"Stuart McLean","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12505","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12505","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Taking its cue from the loss (more precisely, the disappearance) of a close friend and sometime collaborator, and drawing on my long-term fieldwork on an experimental arts festival held annually in the Orkney Islands, this essay reflects on the challenges of documenting uncertain or intermittent presence, as well as the possibilities the latter affords for unsettling and expanding received conceptions of identity, place, and belonging, especially in a political moment in which these are being defined in increasingly narrow and exclusionary terms. Bringing ethnography and autoethnography into dialogue with literature, visual arts, and oral storytelling, it suggests that anthropology can most effectively respond to the challenges of the present by acknowledging that it is, inescapably, a creative as much as a descriptive practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"49 1","pages":"33-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.12505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139443061","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":"Mocking while working with problematic representations: The irony of ethnographic sensibility in Indonesia","authors":"Geger Riyanto","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12504","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12504","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this essay, I contemplate the value of ethnography by reflecting on my experience and that of other anthropology-trained individuals who engage with public socio-ecological issues in Indonesia. While these issues are portrayed as urgent and are packaged with established representations of people and communities, ethnographic engagement produces representations that are at odds with them. Nevertheless, anthropology-trained individuals in Indonesia have no way to address these issues other than to work with institutions that produce the problematic representations, and in doing so, inadvertently contribute to their reproduction. Furthermore, the academic anthropology ecosystem does not support the exhaustive exploration of these issues. Eventually, the sensibility generated by the practice of ethnography becomes more of a latent sensibility, which is critical of the predominant representations. It evokes internal conflict and a sense of irony, which most of the time cannot be expressed or practically addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"49 1","pages":"25-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.12504","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138606091","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":"Weaving relationships: Tobacco, women, and peace in Ovejas, Sucre, Colombia†","authors":"Diana Esperanza Carmona González, Daniela Vanegas, Katherine Vidal","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12503","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Starting from the little recognition that women have been given in both economic and productive life, as well as in the processes aimed at peacebuilding, this article reflects on the relationship between women, tobacco labor, and peacebuilding, based on work conducted with women in contexts of armed conflict and post-agreement in the Montes de Maria region of Colombia, specifically with the <i>Cocinando Ideas</i> Collective in the Municipality of Ovejas, Sucre. The research is conducted through social constructionism and participatory action research, based on the following questions: how has tobacco labor impacted the lives of women in the Montes de Maria region? And how can tobacco labor become an element of peaceful mediation for women survivors of armed conflict? Three conclusions are drawn: the first shows some visible aspects and reveals other invisible aspects regarding the role of women in tobacco labor. The second accounts for positive and negative elements in how the tobacco profession is represented by women. Finally, the article explores the meaning tobacco has had in the territory in terms of peacebuilding and its role in the political transition of the region.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"49 1","pages":"4-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883959","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":"Humanly Possible By Sarah Bakewell. New York: Penguin Press. 2023. 454 pp. ISBN: 9780735223370","authors":"Karen L. Field","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12502","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"48 2","pages":"350-352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136060791","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":"Notes towards an Afterword: On “Hundreds for Katie”","authors":"Susan Lepselter","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12487","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12487","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This afterword performs a contradiction. It simultaneously describes a theoretical argument against finalization while serving as a type of conclusion to “Hundreds for Katie,” a multi-authored, curated project engaging and honoring the influential work and mentorship of Kathleen Stewart upon her recent retirement from the University of Texas. “Hundreds for Katie” is a collaborative endeavor and comprises various experimental, often personal, styles and formats. Despite their poetic and theoretical diversity, each piece in the collection is about one hundred words long, honoring the same poetic form in the final collaboration of Kathleen Stewart and Lauren Berlant, a collection of hundred-word pieces published in <i>The Hundreds</i> (2019). This afterword attempts to engage some of the capacities in ethnographic voicing Kathleen Stewart pioneered. Like the other pieces in the collection, my article uses poetic license to achieve a specific affective and aesthetic effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"48 2","pages":"445-447"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.12487","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135436634","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":"With passionate kisses of parting","authors":"Alphonso Lingis","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12494","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12494","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This piece is part of a special section of “hundreds” in honor of Kathleen Stewart, examining the origins of our personal principles and ideology.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"48 2","pages":"444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87248599","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 bridge","authors":"Laura Kunreuther","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12498","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12498","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This piece of flash ethnography is based on the experience of making a film with interpreters, who are also refugees, based in Kakuma Refugee Camp. The film, <i>The Bridge</i>, was inspired by a collaborative research project I undertook with several of the interpreters, who then became filmmakers, about the labor of interpreters done for humanitarian agencies in the Camp. In life and film, interpreters become the living infrastructure for the humanitarian project within which they exist.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"48 2","pages":"382-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135099194","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":"Playful aliens: Deceit and antipodal narratives in Chilean ufology","authors":"Diana Espírito Santo","doi":"10.1111/anhu.12499","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.12499","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Deceit is conceived by ufology theorists as intrinsic to the behavior of UFO phenomena, often experienced as slippery and theatrical. In abduction experiences, there is what has been described as a simulacrum of medicine and science, whose content can be absurd and whose purposes are largely obscure. If we begin from the humanist perspective, we could say that these experiences produce antipodal stances—contradictory statements and affective postures that show intense paradox within a schema of play. I argue that this play has two fundamental and oscillating (or simultaneous) aspects. It is both bottom-up, in the sense that it is a confined or segregated aspect of society, and top-down, in the sense that it is experienced as a cosmos of aliens with unknown designs that manifest paradoxically. I argue that the terms of our analysis in the social sciences must reflect the fact that, in this simultaneity of opposites, these extraordinary and sometimes traumatic experiences are neither subjective nor objective but lie in a sort of “hermeneutical” middle ground that recognizes the deeply ironic and recursive nature of UFO phenomena.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"48 2","pages":"254-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75408022","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}