Emily, community economic development impact professional (ugh, it's exciting but complicated) based in the US. Was an anthro and Russian language major in the 90s. So that's my connection! Anthro changed my life. Made me a more observant, inquisitive person. Or maybe I already was. I love all things that are different language and different culture than mine. I go back and forth between writing, arting, adventuring, and crocheting. My two Substacks are focused currently on the amazing things that other people do with their time and minimal resources in Africa. Currently deeply invested (literally, emotionally, mentally) in arts education, permaculture, and women's empowerment in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. I love sketch nothing mostly because it's the nexus between visual language is so tantalizing to me and I find it hard to do! So I'm excited to learn from you...!
Caroline, social anthropologist who needed to leave academia after 25 years in it, and do different things. Creative writing is a big one. Like you, I regret that the world doesn't know much about the extremely nuanced and sophisticated ways that anthropology offers us, to help us think about humans and their relationships with each other and the other beings around them (animals, plants, rivers, rocks etc). I'm excited to see what you do here. Wondering what you'd see as your own 'home base' culture - the one that you grew up immersed in and that now, with that insider-outsider reflexive space that we live in, appears all a bit random to you? What language/s did you grow up with and what kinds of Big Truths that you've had to let go of? Welcome here - I'm so glad of the ethnographic company!
Thank you so much for being my first reader/commenter Caroline! ☀️ I hear you on the leaving academia front, similar trajectory myself. I will definitely touch upon the various places, cultures and languages that sew the different parts of me here and there in this newsletter, hopefully it will all come stitched together 💃🏻
Love the sketchnotes and illustrations!!!
Ahhhhh!!! Thank you so very much!! 🫶
Emily, community economic development impact professional (ugh, it's exciting but complicated) based in the US. Was an anthro and Russian language major in the 90s. So that's my connection! Anthro changed my life. Made me a more observant, inquisitive person. Or maybe I already was. I love all things that are different language and different culture than mine. I go back and forth between writing, arting, adventuring, and crocheting. My two Substacks are focused currently on the amazing things that other people do with their time and minimal resources in Africa. Currently deeply invested (literally, emotionally, mentally) in arts education, permaculture, and women's empowerment in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda. I love sketch nothing mostly because it's the nexus between visual language is so tantalizing to me and I find it hard to do! So I'm excited to learn from you...!
Caroline, social anthropologist who needed to leave academia after 25 years in it, and do different things. Creative writing is a big one. Like you, I regret that the world doesn't know much about the extremely nuanced and sophisticated ways that anthropology offers us, to help us think about humans and their relationships with each other and the other beings around them (animals, plants, rivers, rocks etc). I'm excited to see what you do here. Wondering what you'd see as your own 'home base' culture - the one that you grew up immersed in and that now, with that insider-outsider reflexive space that we live in, appears all a bit random to you? What language/s did you grow up with and what kinds of Big Truths that you've had to let go of? Welcome here - I'm so glad of the ethnographic company!
Ps: should we normalize “nuance” as perfect first name for a newborn? 🐣
Thank you so much for being my first reader/commenter Caroline! ☀️ I hear you on the leaving academia front, similar trajectory myself. I will definitely touch upon the various places, cultures and languages that sew the different parts of me here and there in this newsletter, hopefully it will all come stitched together 💃🏻