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{"title":"Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”","authors":"Stuart McLean","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70068","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival states. Lyric, however, is not the only kind of poetry. Epic is arguably the most ancient form of poetry, extending back beyond the advent of writing and taking as its subject matter not just the actions of gods, rulers, and heroes, but also in some cases the origins of the cosmos. Epic poetry, British poet Alice Oswald has suggested, propels us “beyond the voice, beyond the mind, out in the pure, unsupervised space.” Since the nineteenth century, the epic form has sometimes been appropriated for nationalist political ends, to provide an immemorial ground for a political community often envisioned in narrowly exclusionary terms. Yet epic also provides a potential challenge to such narrowness. Part manifesto and part collage of my own and others' words and images, this essay proposes and enacts a mode that I call “minor epic” as an alternative to both ethnonationalist triumphalism and lyric introspection.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887847","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}
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Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz, Priyanka Borpujari, Fiona Murphy, Julia Offen, Johann Sander Puustusmaa, Eva van Roekel, Rich Thornton, Susan Wardell
{"title":"Editors’ note: The future is now","authors":"Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz, Priyanka Borpujari, Fiona Murphy, Julia Offen, Johann Sander Puustusmaa, Eva van Roekel, Rich Thornton, Susan Wardell","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70064","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145751364","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 “witchy properties” of extractivism: Archaeology, lithium mining, and a solar train in Jujuy, Argentina","authors":"Arnd Schneider","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70056","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70056","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay experimentally juxtaposes two kinds of extractivism in Jujuy, northwest Argentina—archaeological excavations at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century on the one hand, and contemporary lithium mining in the 21st century on the other. The latter is linked to a government green developmentalist agenda, which is further manifested by the recent taking into service of a hypermodern, electric train, the “solar” train (<i>tren solar</i>), so-called because it is powered by lithium batteries fed from an electric grid which includes solar energy. Extrapolating from a celebratory poem, the essay further suggests that the “properties” that once enthralled the traveler to return to the magic beauty of Jujuy province have now become “witchy properties” of both archaeological and mineral extractivism, disturbing old balances and setting society and environment out of joint.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750591","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}