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{"title":"Vignettes from Athens: On drawing, ethnography, and being a bad anthropologist","authors":"Letizia Bonanno","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70055","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the entangled practices of drawing and ethnographic fieldwork through a series of illustrated vignettes from Athens. Written from the perspective of a self-described “bad anthropologist,” I reflect on the tensions between theory and experience, visibility and failure, and the messy subjectivity of the fieldworker. Drawing—sketchy, ironic, sometimes raw—is treated neither as a romanticized gesture nor a tool for “impact” or mere “illustration.” Instead, it is foregrounded as a thinking practice, an analytical tool, and a situated act—a way to reckon with what escapes writing, to process visual and affective intensities, and to reimagine relationships with theory, memory, and self. The article critically engages with established scholars not to name-drop but to advance its argument through situated dialogues as a form of theoretical storytelling and speculative fabulation. As an anti-heroic anthropologist, in the article, I challenge the macho tropes of classic fieldwork and the institutional dynamics that determine what counts as “valid” ethnographic experience. Rather than offering generalizable conclusions, I argue for a mode of ethnographic writing and drawing that embraces awkwardness, contradiction, and the freedom to be and feel awful.</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":"145750693","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":"Unwanted journeys: The politics and practice of busing migrants from Texas to Chicago","authors":"Sergio Lemus","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70062","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70062","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By the early 2000s, and especially after September 11, 2001, the increasing surveillance on non-sovereign subjects intensified. One clear example is Texas's recent practice of busing migrants to northern cities, especially to Chicago. This article traces the emergence of this practice and analyzes the political and economic discourse surrounding it. Scholarship on border theorizing has suggested that the border has thickened, been externalized inward as well, and the policies implemented at the border are similar to those at the core of the nation-state. In this article, I argue that this strategy is part of a broader process of <i>internal rebordering</i>, where migrants are relocated within the country to enforce exclusion while sustaining urban economies. Migrants are often viewed as unwanted or burdensome, yet they quickly find jobs across a range of economic sectors in Chicago. By examining statements and practices from state officials and local communities, I demonstrate how internal rebordering reveals contradictions in immigration policy—exclusionary narratives coexist with a structural dependence on migrant labor—and links the busing of migrants as a novel state practice to certain genealogies in history.</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":"145751365","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":"“My Xene.” Care, Affect, and Creative Non-Fiction Among Mothers and Daughters","authors":"Eleni Sideri","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70041","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I lost my mom in 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 outbreak. Ι began working on the first draft of this story several months before her death, at a particularly difficult stage of her illness during which our relationship was challenged. Care is a complex assemblage of economic and social practices, emotions and policies. In the micro-context of a mother–daughter relationship, I try to explore how care could be transformed into an emotional battlefield which sheds light on the construction of this bond in the Greek, urban context. How does this relationship become constructed, and how does it test the boundaries of intimacy and family? How could care help women understand their gendered experiences and expand their female solidarity? To address these questions, the story investigates the mother–daughter relationship through the appearance of a real and symbolic stranger, a female immigrant woman. How does this newly arrived woman help the mother and the daughter reevaluate their relationship?</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":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145751111","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":"Words I should have used","authors":"Sarah Huxley","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70042","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70042","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":"145750765","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":"Preserving traditional ecological knowledge: A study of ethnomycological practices among Kurmi-Mahato, West Bengal","authors":"Swagata Sarkar,&nbsp;Jesurathnam Devarapalli","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70058","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wild edible mushrooms (WEM) are integral to the cultural practices of indigenous communities across the world. Their utilization is essential to effective forest management practices and sustainability within local communities. The intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge plays a vital role in regulating resources, sustaining ecological balance, and ensuring cultural continuity. This paper seeks to document the ethnomycological knowledge of the <i>Kurmi-Mahato</i> community, including an analysis of the local traditional practices and cultural significance of wild edible mushroom species. Ethnomycological hikes and participatory research involved fieldwork with 25 families, documenting fifteen species of wild edible mushrooms. A comprehensive index was developed to assess the cultural significance of WEM, identifying species with high cultural relevance and potential for community engagement in mycophilic activities. Drawing on the anthropology of care, the results suggest the traditional use of WEM is influenced by age, economic activities, and the household's distance from forests. This study contributes to the medicinal exploration of mushrooms, as well as bridges the gap between local ecological knowledge and biodiversity to preserve the intangible cultural heritage. Ultimately, this work leads to a deeper understanding of the factors influencing WEM on cultural significance, and traditional local knowledge of the communities and their environmental management.</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":"145751028","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":"Correction to “Empathy and dialogue: Embracing the art of creative review”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70049","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Borpujari, Priyanka, Ian M. Cook, Çiçek İlengiz, Fiona Murphy, Julia Öffen, Johann Sander Puustusmaa, Eva van Roekel, Richard Thornton and Susan Wardell. 2024. “Empathy and Dialogue: Embracing the Art of Creative Review.” <i>Anthropology and Humanism</i> 49(2): 83–87.</p><p>There is a misspelling of one of the co-authors’ names. Julia Offen is incorrectly spelled Julia Öffen. The correct spelling is Julia Offen, without an umlaut over the “O” in the last name. The author's name has been corrected in the article.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</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":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750891","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":"Unhoused","authors":"Mana Neyestani,&nbsp;Mirco Göpfert","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70066","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70066","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Unhoused&lt;/i&gt; is a composite fieldwork document—drawn, written, layered—that emerged through collaboration between cartoonist Mana Neyestani and anthropologist Mirco Göpfert. What began as a series of interviews, drawing lessons and message exchanges gradually evolved into something less easily classifiable: a joint attempt to trace how displacement unsettles not only bodies and homes, but also narrative, memory, and authorship itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The resulting work moves across three interwoven registers. The first is public and discursive: a series of Wikipedia edits that reveal how identity, kinship, and truth claims are rewritten through digital struggle. The second is political and forensic: a report drawn from Neyestani's imprisonment, typed in clipped, compressed form and language. The third is intimate and disoriented: a dream sequence that distills the mood of narrative suspension, doors that open into nowhere, speech that cannot find its place. The three registers are folded together by other forms: a sketch-based dialogue, a reflective monologue, and a glossary that reframes rather than defines. Drawing, marginalia, and typographic shifts are meant to reframe how the piece is read: not as a single narrative, but as a layered encounter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This piece was developed over the course of several years of conversation, sketching, and co-editing between Mana and Mirco, in Paris, Frankfurt and virtually. The report section draws on Mana's own records, reconstructed from memory, personal documents, and an autobiographical comic book (Neyestani, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;). The dialogue was adapted from chat transcripts and live conversations. The comic sequence was jointly sketched: Mana drew Mirco, and Mirco drew Mana. Drawing and layout choices were shaped in tandem with narrative and ethnographic framing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Figures 1-11 contain the complete work, including conceptual framing, drawn dialogue, report, monologue, glossary, and dream. Each figure corresponds to a full-page layout as finalized by the authors. Grouped loosely by mode and tone: Figures 1 and 2 establish the conceptual frame; Figures 3-6 present, first, a public and then a personal version of who Mana Neyestani is; Figures 7-9 include the report, dialogue, and glossary; and Figures 10 and 11 carry the final sequence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We are deeply grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the editorial collective of &lt;i&gt;Anthropology and Humanism&lt;/i&gt; for their generous and thoughtful engagement. Their encouragement gave us confidence to take the visual and structural choices of this piece seriously. For assistance in shaping both the questions and the manuscript itself, we thank Sepide Ghorbani for her careful thinking, critical nudges, and steady support. Earlier versions of this work were presented at LMU Munich (on invitation by Eveline Dürr) and at the University of Vienna (on invitation from Tatjana Thelen). We thank both for creating space for this strange material—and the students and colleague","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":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750915","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":"The ends of anthropology","authors":"Durba Chattaraj","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70052","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At a moment when the US university is in crisis, through a deep exploration of the process of building a new liberal arts university in India, this essay offers a complex but hopeful narrative that allows us to see the liberal arts university, and the humanistic tradition, anew. In doing so, the essay centers the discipline of anthropology, both as object of inquiry and as method, arguing for its vital importance even in an era of program cuts and disciplinary contraction.</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":"145751277","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":"How my mother partially vanished from life: An ethnographic essay on the absent presents in participatory health care","authors":"Roanne van Voorst","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70043","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This anthropological nonfiction piece explores the complex landscape of caring for a mother by her daughter during a near-loss. It questions whether, and how, we can miss someone who is still present but changed. Rooted in anthropology, the story examines how personal experiences of caregiving and aging intersect with societal and cultural structures, especially the increasing demand for citizen participation in health care. The concept of “absent presence” frames the narrative, highlighting subtle ways in which absence and presence coexist during moments of transition and loss. Blending memoir with academic reflection, the work emphasizes the power of personal stories to reveal societal transformations, grief, longing, and ambiguity about what remains. By situating individual experiences within larger questions of care and identity, the narrative transforms emotion into a lens for understanding societal values. Ultimately, it seeks to resonate with readers by connecting intimate human relationships to broader social concerns, illustrating how ethnographic stories can shed light on collective experiences of aging, loss, and caregiving.</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":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anhu.70043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145751284","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":"Ketuk Jelangkung","authors":"Eka Yusup","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70031","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":"145750719","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}