The Anthropology of Anxiety
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3255241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nutsa Batiashvili (0009-0008-4433-9328, Graduate School of Sciences Free University of Tbilisi Tbilisi Georgia), Katie Rose Hejtmanek (0000-0002-2923-9766, Anthropology Department Brooklyn College Brooklyn New York USA), Stéphanie Larchanché (0000-0001-5670-0880, Department of Psychology Sigmund Freud Private University Paris France) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 127 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 777-782 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.70030 |
| OpenAlex | W4414643629 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
This introduction is part of a special section on the anthropology of anxiety. As a collection, it offers an innovative anthropological approach to anxiety as a social, political, and ontological condition rather than a clinical disorder. Each paper builds on theoretical and philosophical traditions, from Heidegger to Tillich to Lacan to Freud, to explore how anxiety inhabits fields of relations defined by radical social shifts, existential uncertainties, or political, moral, or ethical crises. What is unique about this collection is that each article argues anxiety is found when semantically overdetermined and conflicting scripts of the future, narratives of the past, and potentialities for selfhood collide. It defines anxiety as a condition of multiple disturbances that can inhabit various discourses and practices, affects and feelings, collective actions, and individual sensibilities. It emphasizes the leaky, destructive, emancipatory, and transformative nature of anxiety by examining institutional and political borderlands, liminal and multivocal identities, emerging and disrupting configurations of intimacy, and, by doing so, defines anxiety in relation to courage, love, desire, pain, hurt, and guilt rather than simply fear
Anxiety · Existentialism · Liminality · Narrative · Politics · Relation (database) · Transformative learning · Emotional Labor in Professions · Emotions and Moral Behavior · History of Emotions Research
Anxiety
A Life of Worry
On Anxiety
The Double Invention of Komo
Culture & truth
Anxiety of treason in a small country
The Anthropology of Emotions
Freud's concept of anxiety
Anxiety as Social Practice
Affect
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Diversifying Affect
Anxious Belongings
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |