{"title":"Anxiety Leaks Into Tsqena: Feelings of Hurt Among Georgia's Armenians and Identity Anxiety in the Caucasus","authors":"Nutsa Batiashvili","doi":"10.1111/aman.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper offers an alternative to the designation of anxiety as an externally oriented affect revealed in worry or mental disorder. It stresses the distinction between anxiety as an identity structure that is historically entrenched in an unstable place and the dominant Western paradigm of anxiety as an affective reaction in response to drastic shifts that upset <i>the normal</i> flow of life. I focus on a region with no memory of <i>normal life</i> and interrogate anxiety as an instability with which ethnic Armenians in Georgia (referred to throughout the paper as Georgia's Armenians, the designation used by my interlocutors) define their identity and belonging in relation to multivocal and contradictory narratives. I draw on the anthropological tradition of acknowledging that emotions take culturally specific pathways and argue that in a disturbed place like the Caucasus, expressions of anxiety can be subdued to bypass aggression and instead can <i>leak into</i> the culturally distinct feeling of hurt (<i>tsqena</i>). <i>Tsqena</i> denotes a placid heartbreak in intimate relations and is neither a destructive nor a debilitating affect. By leaking into <i>tsqena</i>, anxiety diversifies to maintain communality and intimacy in a place of violence and hostility.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"128 1","pages":"16-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146154674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology: The Promise of “Sequential” and “Unrestrained” Perspectives for Unsettling Representation","authors":"Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Letizia Bonanno","doi":"10.1111/aman.70054","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aman.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Graphic anthropology has grown to become a distinctive subfield at the intersection of anthropology of drawing, visual anthropology, and multimodal approaches to social research. We assess this development and identify two emerging styles of graphic anthropological practice. While some anthropologists follow the representational language of comic books and graphic novels—known as sequential art—others evade sequential framing, arranging images and text in a variety of nonsequential combinations. We compare and evaluate the two styles and outline their common analytical aspiration to unsettle static textual representation. Such a representational unsettling, we argue, can be realized productively—not by accentuating the text-image dichotomy or by treating the emerging styles as mutually exclusive—but through benefiting from the hybrid (pictorial and textual) qualities of graphic anthropology, which shape each other in a coproductive relationship that defies typological boundaries.</p>","PeriodicalId":7697,"journal":{"name":"American Anthropologist","volume":"128 1","pages":"130-147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2026-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/aman.70054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146155232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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