{"title":"All the vista we cannot see: Scenes of wandering in French migrant psychiatry","authors":"Nichola Khan","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>These five prose poems engage French migrant psychiatry as an ethnographic object in the scene of wandering. They draw from observations of psychiatric consultations and scenes of migrant life in Paris, following ways homelessness and asylum refusal move through migrant life and clinical encounters. Poem (I) reflects on a clinical interview with a mother separated from her son at the border with Turkey, her protective silence; (II) reprises the colonial present in a searing scene of four lifeless bodies on a traffic junction; in (III), the case of a homeless man nursing a brain injury highlights displacements in the shifts of psychiatric practice between idealism, pragmatism, and complicity with the political order; (IV) exposes gendered power in the therapeutic relation, in the texture of chase and negotiation; (V) details a psychiatrist's work to craft the seeds of hope for a young woman from Congo who has witnessed the killings of all her relatives. The poems question ethnographic knowing in the site of displacement, if knowing might emerge more humanely from the changed relation of an oblique view, and exceed the routing of migrant alterity within political and clinical orthodoxy. This exposes a vista of all we cannot see.</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":"145750989","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 immigrant portal: Memory and war","authors":"Ksenia Golovina","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70046","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This poem captures the unexpected memory that is triggered when an immigrant encounters a rose bush. The juxtaposition of time and space transforms the bush into a portal, evoking a paradoxical response of joyful reconnection alongside painful reminders of distance and loss. The poem illustrates how objects, whether natural or architectural, can serve as memory catalysts for immigrants, bridging disparate geographies and temporalities. These portals often emerge from seemingly mundane encounters that become imbued with layered personal and collective histories. Upon later reflection, the poem's portrayal of the rose bush reveals an underlying premonition: its imagery comes to symbolize the violence of war in regions near the poet's childhood home. Thus, the poem intertwines sensory memory, displacement, and geopolitical trauma, demonstrating how present-day landscapes can evoke complex emotional connections to the past.</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":"145751270","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":"Burning trash: An essay on fieldwork, disappearance, and hunting for mushrooms","authors":"Claire Branigan","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay contemplates the emotional and intellectual experience of conducting fieldwork on violence. It explores the cognitive dissonance that ethnographers must navigate as they exist in a field site, which can also be a global tourist destination. Focusing on the horror of witnessing contemporary femicide in the Buenos Aires urban margins, it weaves in and out of the past and present, wealthy and poor, periphery to the center, to ultimately land on a chance encounter with a taxi driver who survived forced disappearance during Argentina's military dictatorship. Taking place during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, “disappearance” and “reappearance” also serve as ways for thinking about the ephemeral nature of fieldwork and how our research can vanish and reappear over the course of years or overnight.</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":"145751363","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":"Homing beyond boundaries","authors":"Shuhua Chen, Kahsu Ferede, Negash Abebe Tufa, Gerawork Legesse","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This volume of creative encounters, Homing beyond Boundaries, explores the lived meanings of home as expressed by Ethiopian migrants navigating displacement, war, and longing. Originating from a public dialogue at <i>Antropologidagene</i> in Trondheim, the project centers on poetic expressions of “homing” as embodied, affective experience rather than abstract theory. Set against the backdrop of Ethiopia's Tigray conflict (2020–2022), three contributors—Ethiopian migrants studying in Norway—share their homing journeys through stories of food, family photographs, and the fragile presence of hope. The poetic format invites readers into a shared space of recognition and resonance, illuminating the fractured, sensory textures of exile, and belonging.</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":"145751245","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":"Children's radical kincrafting—Riverways through care, healing, and transformation","authors":"Lauren J. Silver","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70053","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This piece explores radical kinship through patchwork ethnography across multiple intimate and educational spaces. The style is multivocal as the work honors creative, nonlinear, and embodied ways of knowing and crafting kin relationships. I learn intergenerationally from youth, educators, and my daughter, as we build kin to care for one another and heal from harm. Through my art, I share aspects of my inner child's relationship to kinship. This piece theorizes three key takeaways: (1) Radical kinship moves us toward liberatory lifeways and builds the kind of reverent intergenerational processes that dignify childlike vulnerabilities, asymmetries of care, and playful tendencies. (2) Patchwork and creative ethnography provide a caring methodological framework for respecting different embodied and relational ways of co-creating knowledge and (3) This nonlinear multivocal and visual account models a sense of radical kinship between author and reader.</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.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145751124","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":"La Muerte de Farruko Pop/The Death of Farruko Pop","authors":"Eric Hoenes del Pinal","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70060","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In May 2024, the body of Farruko Pop—a Q'eqchi’-Maya singer and social media influencer—was found buried in a shallow grave in Guatemala City. Although he was just 18 years old and from a small rural community, his murder made front-page news and became the major subject of commentary and speculation in the country. This open-ended narration of that event explores the uncertainties of life and death facing young indigenous people in contemporary Guatemala. Drawing on contemporaneous observations of how the case was talked about in print media, social media, and word-of-mouth, I reconstruct the social and cultural implications of the murder. If on the one hand, the case illustrates the multiple and continuing forms of violence that Indigenous people face in Guatemala; on the other, the reasons the case became front-page news suggest how some young people are finding the means and opportunity to contest the conditions that enable those forms of violence. I highlight how Maya cosmology—in particular its conceptualizations of dreaming and death—in conjunction with access to new media technologies affords people from these communities new imaginaries for how to live in contemporary Guatemala.</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.70060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750516","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":"Literary anthropology: A user's guide","authors":"Lucas Bessire, Laurence Ralph","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70057","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anhu.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay reflects on the recent return to the literary within anthropological thinking and writing and places it in conversation with wider dynamics. To do so, we outline the general conditions of this movement, describe the features that constitute a spectrum of literary anthropological works, argue that these features may enable distinctive modes of anthropological engagement with affective economies, political rationalities, and the crisis of critique in social science, and offer some preliminary guidelines for crafting ethnographic projects in these directions. We aim to call attention to a movement that is still emerging and provide initial provocations for further discussion and debate.</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":"145751273","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":"Poseidon, Athena, and Demeter: Epithets and associations in the divine","authors":"Anika Elema","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this paper is to look deeper into the connection between divinities, and interpret how a shift in necessity of mortals is reflected through a shift in the attributes the divine were worshipped through. In this process, it becomes more clear as to how the people of ancient Greece viewed their gods and goddesses. Through comparing literary descriptions with archaeological evidence and artistic representations, a more realistic picture of life in ancient Greek cult worship and festivals emerges. In this, we can understand not only how mortals viewed their divinities, but how their worship acted as connections between people; through worship and communal gatherings the divine brought people together in extraordinary ways. This information is useful to anyone studying history, archaeology, mythology, and anthropology. This is also extremely relevant to the philosophy of religion. By looking past surface-level assumptions and digging deeper into ancient literary descriptions, we possess the ability to uncover the deeper meaning that lies hidden within them. This studies the pantheon through time and space in conjunction with cultural, environmental, and social links that tie in with physical attributes. This anthropology of the gods as fluid figures is argued.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750655","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 Great Indian Family: An analysis of religious othering through food identity","authors":"Prithiraj Borah","doi":"10.1111/anhu.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Muslim cuisine in many Indian contexts is frequently “othered” through various sociocultural mechanisms. Unlike the vegetarian diet which is often associated with upper-caste Hindu practices, traditional Muslim cuisine typically includes meat dishes, particularly beef, which remains taboo in Hindu traditions. The film review explores how the protagonist of The Great Indian Family (2023) navigates these complex social boundaries, portraying his confusion and eventual adaptation to new food practices as a metaphor for broader questions of religious identity, belonging, and cultural hybridity in modern India. It also examines his struggle to reconcile conflicting religious identities, particularly through dietary practices, showcasing how food functions as a powerful marker of religious and cultural identity in India.</p>","PeriodicalId":53597,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology and Humanism","volume":"50 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750575","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}