Ideas come too early or too late. Exhaustion sets in. Money and time run out. Mentors can be cruel or abusive. Geopolitical contexts change. Illnesses take their toll. Activist commitments grow urgent. Fieldwork becomes unsafe and fieldnotes get stolen. Family concerns arise. Prose comes in an undesired key. Teaching obligations overwhelm.
And on and on.
On the premise that no idea is so small that it should be lost to history, this site will soon host a repository of anthropology’s abandoned writings, unrealized projects, and incomplete theories.