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Paper short abstract

The paper examines walking and drawing as anthropological methods, showing how sketching in motion produces relational narratives of nature that resist fixed viewpoints, foreground embodied experience, and reveal entanglements with more-than-human worlds.

Paper long abstract

My proposed paper explores anthropological drawing as a practice that emerges in motion, in the field, and in direct contact with landscapes. Unlike photography or video, which often aim to capture fixed perspectives, drawing unfolds as a situated, processual act: the line follows the pace of the walk, the encounter with plants, stones, or paths, and the interruptions of weather and terrain. Sketching while walking does not simply document space but narrates the embodied experience of moving through it.

I argue that such drawings resist visual hierarchies by refusing a singular, central viewpoint; they fragment, omit, or distort, thereby producing relational rather than representational accounts of nature. Bringing together insights from visual anthropology and art-based research, the paper examines how walking and drawing together create emergent narrative practices in which gesture, materiality, and rhythm generate meaning.

By presenting examples from fieldwork, I will show how anthropological drawing makes visible the entanglement of humans and natural environments, destabilizing dominant visual grammars and opening alternative ways of narrating more-than-human worlds.