Andrew Beatty

Author and Anthropologist, Brunel University, London

Andrew Beatty is an anthropologist. He is interested in psychological anthropology, life writing, and literary approaches to ethnography. His books include Emotional Worlds: Beyond an Anthropology of Emotion (2019) and two narrative ethnographies: A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java (2009) and After the Ancestors: an Anthropologist’s Story (2015).

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Written by Andrew Beatty

Black-and-white photo of traditional thatched huts lining a dirt road in a village, with a lone figure walking in the centre.

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Anthropology

Longhouse lockdown

On a regular cycle, the Nias islanders of Indonesia would retreat into enforced seclusion. What can we learn from them?

Andrew Beatty

A group of Indonesian people sitting and standing in a wooden room. A man points while others, including children, look on with curiosity.

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Anthropology

The emotional lives of others

On Nias island, the heart can be ‘squeezed’, ‘hot’, even ‘hairy’. What can anthropology say about unfamiliar emotional zones?

Andrew Beatty