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Loss remakes you
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28049
Amah Edoh

This article tells the story of my research on Dutch wax cloth, a highly prized textile and cultural artifact in Togo, my home country. I examine the fate of the cloth and of the Togolese women who made it into an object of great significance in the wake of political upheaval starting in the late 1980s, the same upheaval that led to my family's permanent departure from Togo in 1991. Tracking my trajectory through the research as a Togolese émigrée, I come to see clearly for the first time that the cloth's story and my own were not only shaped by the same historical forces but that they also traced similar arcs. Told together, the stories weave a tale of belonging, rupture, and of what comes after; a story of how loss remakes us, and how we remake ourselves in the face of loss. Autoethnography emerges as a tool for unearthing the personal agendas that so often guide our choice of research topics as anthropologists. And research on topics that are close to home proves to be as likely to reawaken old wounds as it is to open pathways to some measure of resolution.

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Unsettling the self: Autoethnography and related kin
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28050
Christine J. Walley, Denielle Elliott

Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological subgenres tell us both about our times and anthropology? How does “unsettling the self” require rethinking not only boundaries between selves and others, but our roles as anthropologists and our discipline in order to produce writing that, as Behar suggests, “does not alienate ourselves from our ourselves?” How does “unsettling the self” also entail, as Anand Pandian observes, “unsettling the world” around us, including explorations of contemporary capitalism, settler colonialism, racial politics, or the agency of natural environments or nonhumans? What are the ethical questions and the limits engendered by such work, and what might such trends bode for anthropology's future? This special section integrates examples of these growing anthropological subgenres alongside efforts to theorize this mode of writing as we attempt to answer Alisse Waterston's provocation: What is such work potentially “good for?”

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A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28048
Denielle Elliott

In this paper, I consider how one writes an ethnographic memoir about memories, time, and our fieldwork when our memories, or our interlocutors’ memories, are unreliable, inconsistent, false, or simply missing. Reflecting on a brain injury that resulted during fieldwork, my (dis)ordered memories, and the intense reliance on memory in sociocultural anthropology, I ask what writing would look like for anthropologists if we wrote with the forgetfulness? Imperceptible to most, and escaping clinical and lab evaluations, the e/affects of my brain injury have reshaped how I am in this world and shifted how I approach and understand the ethnographic project. I suggest that by writing with memory loss, by admitting there are gaps and fissures, by embracing the confusion and confabulations, and by acknowledging the paralleled unfinishedness of the ethnographic project, we work toward a reformed anthropology that no longer uncritically esteems memory as the basis for the anthropological project. In doing so, the paper contributes to what Marlovitz and Wolf-Meyer have called a “psychotic anthropology,” one that disrupts disciplinary ideas about minds, methods, and memoir and contributes to a productively unruly, and inclusive, ethnographic practice.

在本文中,我将思考当我们的记忆或我们对话者的记忆不可靠、不一致、虚假或干脆缺失时,如何撰写关于记忆、时间和田野工作的民族志回忆录。反思田野工作期间造成的脑损伤、我(混乱)的记忆,以及社会文化人类学对记忆的强烈依赖,我不禁要问,如果我们带着遗忘写作,人类学家的写作会是什么样子?我的脑损伤对大多数人来说难以察觉,也逃不过临床和实验室的评估,它重塑了我在这个世界上的存在方式,改变了我对民族志项目的态度和理解。我建议,通过失忆写作,通过承认存在空白和裂痕,通过拥抱困惑和混淆,通过承认民族志项目的平行未完成性,我们致力于改革人类学,不再不加批判地推崇记忆作为人类学项目的基础。通过这样做,本文为马洛维茨和沃尔夫-迈耶所称的 "精神病人类学 "做出了贡献,这种人类学扰乱了关于思想、方法和回忆录的学科观念,并为富有成效的不规则和包容的民族志实践做出了贡献。
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A fair shake: Grief, murder, and the contradictions of juvenile crime
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28046
Laurence Ralph

This article is an intimate encounter with grief that aims to transform my own field of scholarly study into painful lived experience. The central question of my essay is:  When a life is extinguished by street violence, how does a victim's family heal from homicide? The major argument of this article centers around accountability. Drawing from the literature in child psychology as well as the sociology and anthropology of urban violence, I argue that, as a society, our idea of accountability is incomplete. In humanizing both victims and perpetrators of violence, I seek to expand the conception of gang lives by urging my readers to fight against the tendency to reject complexity and gravitate toward purity. As I would come to learn when a teenage family member of mine was murdered, transforming the criminal justice system necessitates that we grapple with contradictory emotions—such as compassion and rage. This is perhaps the greatest and most overlooked aspect of the transformative justice debate today.

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Appropriating corporate personhood: Constructions of the person-corporation and native nation sovereignty
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28044
Courtney Lewis

Over the past century, debates have raged about the validity of United States corporate personhood and the scope of a person-corporation's rights. While important, these discussions have also erased marginalized peoples’ use of corporate personhood as a strategy for securing the rights denied them by governments. This is the case with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), who incorporated in 1847 to ensure their own rights and protections at a time when their political sovereignty and human rights were being systematically violated. Although legal recognition of corporate personhood began in 1818, the granting of previously human-only rights to person-corporations has accelerated via recent court cases. In this article, I briefly examine how, over time, the US has conferred personhood on corporations. I then deconstruct what this personhood can tell us about the beliefs and practices regarding the meaning of being a person in the United States. Through this, I demonstrate that the act of conferring personhood—the accountability of who is counted as a person and by whom—manifests the underlying ontologies and purposes of what it is to be a person, whether it is through US incorporation laws or in the EBCI's sovereignty protections.

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Pushpin memoir: Making meaning out of murder
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28045
Noelle Sullivan

In 2018, my brother Adam Colquhoun, nicknamed “Stretch,” was killed in a bar in Calgary, Alberta by a man he barely knew. Stretch was the kind of person society finds convenient to discard. His history of theft, illicit drug dealing, mental illness, addiction, and homelessness made his humanity “undesirable.” Nevertheless, lessons Stretch learned painfully over his lifetime had something to teach us. In 2016, he told me he wanted someone to write his biography. This paper explores how my brother's murder caused me to collapse the binary between personal and professional, and embrace memoir—a process differing substantially from writing ethnography. I thought of my approach as “pushpin memoir,” akin to a detective board where investigators stick bits of evidence in the aftermath of a crime. Pushpins comprise unusual, standout moments we hold onto among the quotidian we often forget. Meanings gleaned from Stretch's life allowed me to rethink the future of the man who killed him, and thus imagine broader possibilities for people whose actions cause irreparable harm. I ponder how centering the experiencing self feels crucial to future endeavors to write an anthropology that matters to broader publics I hope to engage.

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Living in the Paraindustrial
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28047
Christine J. Walley

This article is an autoethnographic exploration of life in the former steel mill region of Southeast Chicago in the ‘Rust Belt’ of the Midwestern United States. It challenges assumptions about deindustrialization that depict one discrete historical stage following another (i.e., the postindustrial following the industrial) in favor of what is here defined as the ‘paraindustrial’ (or a setting in which active industry with minimal numbers of workers exists alongside defunct industry and toxic brownfields). This account centers upon the experiences of women who have too often been neglected in research on deindustrialized regions. In particular, it focuses on the author's elderly mother Arlene who has spent her entire life in Southeast Chicago. From her wheelchair on a backyard porch, Arlene observes this damaged landscape built out of the former Calumet wetlands. The article considers the relationships of care, centered around women, that continue to bind together and support the living despite decades of economic and environmental rupture and degradation. Utilizing the concept of a ‘palimpsest,’ the piece considers how different historical, ecological, and social realities and temporalities are both layered on top of each other and intermingle to create the complex landscape found in this former wetland region.

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Bridging worlds: An interview with Ethiopian American archaeologist Helina Woldekiros 沟通世界:采访埃塞俄比亚裔美国考古学家 Helina Woldekiros
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28039
Helina Woldekiros, Jing Xu, Yang Zhan
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Capitalist inequality and power, migration, and urbanity: A biographical interview with Nina Glick Schiller
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28042
Damián Omar Martínez
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Intimate war across borders: Terrifying encounters, recognition, and “the Colombian armed conflict” in Quito, Ecuador
IF 2.6 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/aman.28043
Alana Ackerman

Much anthropological scholarship on war—particularly “civil war”—focuses on violence perpetrated between organized political groups within the confines of a national space. In contrast, this article examines how “internal armed conflict” manifests across international borders, irrupting as interpersonal violence in spaces that are supposedly external to war. More specifically, I demonstrate how “the Colombian armed conflict” unfolds between refugees and their persecutors in Quito, Ecuador, through fleeting encounters based upon processes of life-threatening recognition. These everyday encounters constitute “intimate war,” a relational condition of world-making involving terrifying social attachments—threatening verbal and physical gestures and cues—between “strangers,” or people who are not necessarily familiar with each other. In this context, refugees enact strategies of evasion to avoid detection by their persecutors, such as bus hopping, visually scanning their surroundings, and avoiding other Colombians. Terrifying encounters across borders, and refugees’ strategies to avoid them, unsettle normative assumptions about the desirability of recognition, where and how war happens, and what constitutes escape.

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