Allow me to introduce myself [A rather sketchy "about me"]

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Hellooo!

I am Emiko Stock, a Sketchy Anthropologist based between Phnom Penh and Cairo who writes about all things anthropology, all things sketchnotes and the nerdy corner that connects the two!

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Here are a few things about me you totally didn’t need to know but might demonstrate that this newsletter is not from a complete unknown robot (although a dear robot would be fine… right?!) [🤖]

All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators.

[In this post: @makingshit + @alejogiraldo_ + @evalottchen + @illustratorkamo + @kasinglung + @weirdoforest [all on IG] and Osamu Tezuka [not] + endless scrolling of thenounproject.com]

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All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators.

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[📍] Where I’m at:

I’ve always had one butt-cheek in one country and the other across the world (here is a picture to get us started with, completely unknown and yet now deeply intimate stranger!)

All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators. Here: @makingshit

Cambodia is where home is, and for the past couple of years my second special place, originally for a job, has been Egypt.

There are tiny and enormous pros and cons to live between two places, but here are what my life/lives look/s like:

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[🇰🇭] In Phnom Penh ~

All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators. Here: @alejogiraldo_

In Phnom Penh I have a partner and a dog, and the city has been my home for most of my life!

Here, I have been committed to a two decade long ethnographic journey with Chams—members of the Muslim minority in an otherwise vastly Buddhist country. That said, at this point, some of my partners in crime feel more like home and family rather than actual fieldwork.[👯]

In my research I work on how images can convey disrupted histories beyond what can be observed, traced and archived. (Wait, no illustration for that one?!… Mmmm… maybe there is a point here [🤔])

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[🇪🇬] In Cairo ~

All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators. Here: @evalottchen

In Cairo I have my friends and our downtown coffee and biking rides. I love the intellectual and creative vibrancy of this tentaculous metropolis. Here, I also teach all things anthropology and my favorite subfields:

• [📶] digital ethnography,

• [📸] visual anthropology,

• [🦗] sonic anthropology,

• [📹] documentary production,

• [🖍️] sketchnotes!

All together they compose the ever limitless portfolio of *multimodal anthropology* where writing is just one of the many ways used to relate (to) the world!

In Cairo I don’t have a pet. No need because my building is, like most in the city, ruled over by the mighty Cairo-Cats-Union [🐾].

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[🧟] What I am ~

All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators. Here: @illustratorkamo + @kasinglung + Osamu Tezuka

I aspire to be a fantastic, amazing, star-striking human being, but I could very well settle for really-good-person. I mean… not a complete little devil moonlighting as clown would be nice, right?

When I go bold and gold I see myself as a filmmaker, photographer, and writer with feminist leanings. But most of the days I am just a solid myself-er.

And friends, let’s not forget how much mental energy, gut stamina, and brain juice being true ourself-ers already takes!

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[🌞] Things I like ~

All sketchnotes totally and clumsily hand-drawn by me, yet ever so fabulously inspired by some of my favorite illustrators. Here: @weirdoforest

I like all things analog and experimental. I obsessively love:

• [📺] watching TV

• [📚]stationary, stationary, stationary

• [📺] watching TV

• [🥷+🍒] a solid hoodie and giant earrings

• [📺] watching TV

• [💄+🥑+🌮] some bright rouge on my lips and cheeks usually messed up by that other thing I adore: a good combo of spicy guacamole and tortillas, 6

• [📺] and… you guessed it: watching TV

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[☔] Things I don’t like (I mean… no hate here… but…) ~

• [🛌🏽] going to bed if I am not completely dead-zombie-exhausted

• [🚨] waking up (no matter the hour),

• [🍳] cooking (if it doesn’t come in a just-open-it kind of box, it won’t come into my kitchen),

• [🏷️] having to choose between colors and sizes (and here goes that triple amount retail bill…)

• [🖍️] That one thing that I adore: sketchnoting! Which is what this newsletter is all about! More of that in the About This Newsletter section please :)

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Now that you know more about me, happy to meet you!

Let me know who you are in a line (scribbled in words or doodles!) and what brought you here, so that I can thank you for stopping by!

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