Poetry

Poetry is a great medium to play with words, sounds and ideas about anthropology. If you have a poem about fieldwork, ethnography, or any anthropological topic email Nafisa Fera, the RAI's This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

  Poem by: Nafisa Fera

So what are these folks studying?

For one, this thing's about seeing how to unpack our mysteries,

sophistries and histories

longside other far-out ways of being.

But who's looking for 'Ways to Be'?

Metaphoric'ly speaking, you 'see'

The most peripheral 'vision, 're-framed with

(something approaching) 'precision'(!)

opens out what it means to say 'we'.

So anthropology speaks to 'we-dom'? Of the kinds you may find in free-dom?

Add the powers we practice, plus the knowledge we lack

'tis so way beyond being zero-sum.

Our games here turn somewhat dour (netting praxis, knowhow +power)

Me now need a shower, or an ecologically brief

wipe down, with fig-leaf.

Poem by: Siddartha Chaterjee