issue: November–December 2023 Silence

AN 64.6 takes a break from the speed and cacophony of contemporary life and turns an anthropological eye to silences of all kinds in all places: silence companionable, powerful, visceral, awkward, racialized, attentive, curatorial, visual, linguistic, political, liberatory, public, private, of refusal, medical, poetic, and musical. What counts as silence? How is silence expressed? What does it sound like? And what can it tell us about human lives and social worlds?

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