Footnotes

Nataša Rogelja Caf and Špela Ledinek Lozej published a book Hodopisi: Zbirka etnografskih esejev z metodološkimi premisleki o hoji in pisanju (Footnotes: Ethnographic Essays with Methodological Reflections on Walking and Writing) at Založba ZRC (ZRC Publishing). Altogether, the book encompasses ten texts, seven of which are anthropological essays, accompanied by two introductory texts and an epilogue on walking and writing as two long-established, but here freshly reappraised, methods of anthropological research. The essays take us across Istria, Goričko, Porabje, Koroška, and the Julian Alps, coming on the back of a preliminary brainstorming session between researchers from a variety of disciplines and fields, before finally carving out distinct paths. Something between what is an academic text and an essay. By focusing on steps, words, and paths, whether walked or written, the book seeks to illuminate the in-between spaces, understanding walking and writing as a cognitive process, part of the fieldwork experience, a long conversation that meanders between the circuits of life. The book’s seven meditative essays therefore foreground hybrid, liminal and bold writing that is quintessentially anthropological. Goran Dekleva talked about the book with the authors in the radio show Kulturni fokus, Nada Vodušek in the radio show Nočni obisk, and Andreja Končar in the TV broadcast Kultura.