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ok let's apply these suggestions now. maybe we don't know how to create footnotes through sheaf yet, that's fine we can fix that later... Latvian translations For an anthropology thesis with a Latvian fieldsite, keeping both languages is appropriate — preserves the participants’ voices and signals the ethnographic register. Below is each quote with a translation. You can present these as either: Latvian first, English in brackets after (standard ethnographic convention), or English in main text, Latvian in a footnote (cleaner reading flow, especially if there are many quotes). I’d suggest the first for short pithy quotes (where the Latvian word matters — brīv, krājēja, tante ar trīs maisiem) and the second for longer narrative passages. §4.2.2 — Madara on freeness “Man kaut kā mazāka vēlme ņemt visu, ko es redzu, par spīti tam, ka tas it kā ir tas ‘brīv’… es kaut kā vairāk cienu to visu, kas tur ir izlikts.” [I somehow feel less desire to take everything I see, despite the fact that it’s all “free” — I somehow have more respect for everything that’s laid out there.] “Kādam varbūt tas ‘brīv’ rada vēlmi, ka viss ir bez maksas, tagad ņemam, ņemam, ņemam. Man tas nospēlē kaut kā tieši otrādāk.” [For some, maybe “free” creates the urge that everything is free, so now we take, take, take. For me it works the opposite way.] “Es to uztveru kā apmaiņu. To vārdu ‘brīvu’ kaut kā izslēdzu… Sākumā tas tā bišķiņ mulsināja, ka esmu kā apzagusies.” [I see it as exchange. I somehow switch off the word “free”… At first it was a bit confusing, as if I had stolen something.] Note: you’ve already translated the third quote in §5.2 (“At first it felt a bit like I was stealing”) — keep the wording consistent across the two chapters. §4.3 — Madara on impulse-acquiring “Man bija ļoti daudz dažādu veidu… pēdējos pāris gadus es kaut kā esmu no tā atkāvusies, ka es tā vairs nedaru. Es tiešām ļoti izvērtēju, vai man tā lieta tiešām ir nepieciešama.” [I used to have so many different kinds of things… in the last couple of years I’ve somehow weaned myself off it; I no longer do that. I really do evaluate whether the thing is genuinely necessary for me.] “Es tiešām cenšos nebūt tā tante ar trīs maisiem, kas staigā katru dienu tur no vienas točkas uz otru. To es cenšos nepieļaut un cenšos arī sadraudzēties maksimāli ar tām lietām, kas man ir.” [I really try not to be that auntie with three bags who walks every day from one spot to another. I try to avoid that, and try to make peace as much as I can with the things I already have.] Note: “tante ar trīs maisiem” is a culturally specific image — the figure of the woman with multiple shopping bags rotating through second-hand outlets. Worth keeping in Latvian and translating literally; you could add a brief gloss like “the figure of the heavy-taking second-hand regular.” §4.3 — Elīna on having enough Interviewer: “Bet kā tu nonāci pie tās sajūtas, pie tās atziņas – man jau pietiek?” Elīna: “Man vienkārši skapī vairs nav vietas. (smejas) Nu, arī, teiksim, tagad ir ziema, un ir džemperu laiks, un es saprotu, ka es tāpat neuzvelku visus savus džemperus. Nu, tātad man viņu ir acīmredzami par daudz. Un man arī patīk novalkāt lietas. Tur ir kaut kāds tāds, nu, man vismaz, īpašs tā kā kaifs, ka es ar šo lietu esmu tik daudz lietas darījusi kopā, ka viņa ir tik novalkāta, ka viņu, iespējams, pat vairs nevar salabot.” [Interviewer: But how did you arrive at that feeling, that realisation — I already have enough? Elīna: There’s simply no more space in my wardrobe. (laughs) Well — say it’s winter now, sweater season, and I realise I don’t wear all my sweaters anyway. So I obviously have too many of them. And I also like wearing things out. There’s a kind of — well, for me at least, a special pleasure when I’ve gone through so much with a thing that it’s worn down to the point where maybe it can’t even be repaired anymore.] §4.3 — Aiga on hoarding and letting go “Es esmu krājēja. Jā, es esmu krājēja.” [I’m a hoarder. Yes, I’m a hoarder.] “Es aizbraucu, un tad ar to arī sākās, ka tagad, nu, tagad tas ir izdarīts, tagad ir jādomā kaut kas par lietām, kas ir par daudz.” [I went away [on the trip], and that’s when it started — that now, well, it’s been done, and now I have to think something about the things that are too many.] “Es labāk šobrīd lēnā garā atbrīvojos… man nav vienkārši žēl paņemt somu un aizbraukt.” [I’d rather let go of things slowly now… I just don’t want it to be hard to pick up a bag and leave.] Note: “krājēja” is feminine for “one who collects/hoards” — the word carries both the neutral “saver/collector” sense and the more anxious “hoarder” sense. Worth keeping. §4.3 — Māra on attachment as ongoing work “Pieķeršanās jautājums tiek risināts. Viņš ir procesā.” [The question of attachment is being worked on. It’s in process.] “Brīvbode palīdz, tā teikt, šim procesam attīstīties.” [Brīvbode helps, so to speak, this process to develop.] “Šobrīd jau ir uz robežas, tāpēc es saku, ka ir jāatvadās jau no tā, kas jau ir atrasts.” [I’m already at the edge now, that’s why I say one has to start saying goodbye even to what one has already found.] §4.5 — Māra on her mother’s generation “Mammai to lietu nebija daudz, un tās lietas tika visas, nu, ļoti labi uzturētas. Bet tad, kad jau parādījās tie humāno preču veikali, tad savukārt bija otrā drusku galējība.” [My mother didn’t have many things, and those things were all, well, very well looked after. But then, once the second-hand goods shops [humāno preču veikali, lit. “humanitarian goods shops”] appeared, the other extreme came.] Note: “humāno preču veikali” is the colloquial Latvian term for second-hand/charity shops — literally “humanitarian goods shops” because they originated in 1990s post-Soviet Latvia partly through Western humanitarian aid. Worth a brief footnote to gloss this for non-Latvian readers; it carries historical weight that “second-hand shop” doesn’t.
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  • §4.2.2: #CUBS5Q Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Reading the Room: Norms and Competencies of Circulation #QP7HMF #CUBS5Q "Man kaut kā mazāka vēlme ņemt visu, ko es redzu, par spīti tam, ka tas it kā ir tas 'brīv'... es kaut kā vairāk cienu to visu, kas tur ir izlikts." [I somehow feel less desire to take everything I see, despite the fact that it's all "free" – I somehow have more respect for everything that's laid out there.] Madara explicitly contrasts her response to freeness with others' – she imagines the hoarder who grabs because it's free, and positions herself as someone for whom freeness activates restraint rather than acquisition. This is the moral economy of freeshopping from the perspective of someone still in the early stages of learning the practice's norms. "Kādam varbūt tas 'brīv' rada vēlmi, ka viss ir bez maksas, tagad ņemam, ņemam, ņemam. Man tas nospēlē kaut kā tieši otrādāk." [For some, maybe "free" creates the urge that everything is free, so now we take, take, take. For me it works the opposite way.] "Es to uztveru kā apmaiņu. To vārdu 'brīvu' kaut kā izslēdzu... Sākumā tas tā bišķiņ mulsināja, ka esmu kā apzagusies." [I see it as exchange. I somehow switch off the word "free"… At first it was a bit confusing, as if I had stolen something.] This is competency acquisition: Madara is learning how to understand and inhabit the value regime of Brīvbode, and she narrates the process explicitly. (Madara on freeness, 3 quotes)

  • §4.3: #9XUDV9 Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Letting Go: Attachment Without Price #7Z8WUY #9XUDV9 "Man bija ļoti daudz dažādu veidu... pēdējos pāris gadus es kaut kā esmu no tā atkāvusies, ka es tā vairs nedaru. Es tiešām ļoti izvērtēju, vai man tā lieta tiešām ir nepieciešama." [I used to have so many different kinds of things… in the last couple of years I've somehow weaned myself off it; I no longer do that. I really do evaluate whether the thing is genuinely necessary for me.] Madara describes a conscious shift away from impulse acquiring in secondhand contexts – she recognizes her own past behavior as a problem and has worked to change it. This is deliberate practice modification. Madara: "Es tiešām cenšos nebūt tā tante ar trīs maisiem, kas staigā katru dienu tur no vienas točkas uz otru. To es cenšos nepieļaut un cenšos arī sadraudzēties maksimāli ar tām lietām, kas man ir." [I really try not to be that auntie with three bags who walks every day from one spot to another. I try to avoid that, and try to make peace as much as I can with the things I already have.] Making peace with what you have – sufficiency as an active practice of relationship with objects rather than deprivation. This is a positive formulation of sufficiency that does not rely on environmental discourse. (Madara, tante ar trīs maisiem), #QCXR6D Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Letting Go: Attachment Without Price #7Z8WUY #QCXR6D Elīna R. "S1: Bet kā tu nonāci pie tās sajūtas, pie tās atziņas – man jau pietiek? S2: Man vienkārši skapī vairs nav vietas. (smejas) Nu, arī, teiksim, tagad ir ziema, un ir džemperu laiks, un es saprotu, ka es tāpat neuzvelku visus savus džemperus. Nu, tātad man viņu ir acīmredzami par daudz. Un man arī patīk novalkāt lietas. Tur ir kaut kāds tāds, nu, man vismaz, īpašs tā kā kaifs, ka es ar šo lietu esmu tik daudz lietas darījusi kopā, ka viņa ir tik novalkāta, ka viņu, iespējams, pat vairs nevar salabot." [Interviewer: But how did you arrive at that feeling, that realisation – I already have enough? Elīna: There's simply no more space in my wardrobe. (laughs) Well – say it's winter now, sweater season, and I realise I don't wear all my sweaters anyway. So I obviously have too many of them. And I also like wearing things out. There's a kind of – well, for me at least, a special pleasure when I've gone through so much with a thing that it's worn down to the point where maybe it can't even be repaired anymore.] (Elīna on having enough), #Z2Y4K8 Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Letting Go: Attachment Without Price #7Z8WUY #Z2Y4K8 "Es esmu krājēja. Jā, es esmu krājēja." [I'm a hoarder. Yes, I'm a hoarder.] Aiga recognised hoarding tendencies in herself. She links it to scarcity experience – not having had much as a student, learning to keep things because things were hard to come by. The accumulation habit is understood as a survival response to past material insecurity, but she is actively working to change. The turning point was a month-long solo trip through Europe after her employment ended: "Es aizbraucu, un tad ar to arī sākās, ka tagad, nu, tagad tas ir izdarīts, tagad ir jādomā kaut kas par lietām, kas ir par daudz." [I went away [on the trip], and that's when it started – that now, well, it's been done, and now I have to think something about the things that are too many.] Travel – where you carry only what fits in a bag – reframed her relationship to possessions and worked as a biographical rupture that catalyzed practice change. (Aiga, krājēja), #AB5XLD Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Letting Go: Attachment Without Price #7Z8WUY #AB5XLD "Es labāk šobrīd lēnā garā atbrīvojos... man nav vienkārši žēl paņemt somu un aizbraukt." [I'd rather let go of things slowly now… I just don't want it to be hard to pick up a bag and leave.] The war anxiety dimension: she is releasing things partly because she wants to be able to leave quickly if necessary. The geopolitical context of Latvia – proximity to Russia, uncertainty since 2022 – appears explicitly in her divestment motivation. (Aiga on letting go), #LG8X4N Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Letting Go: Attachment Without Price #7Z8WUY #LG8X4N "Pieķeršanās jautājums tiek risināts. Viņš ir procesā." [The question of attachment is being worked on. It's in process.] "Brīvbode palīdz, tā teikt, šim procesam attīstīties." [Brīvbode helps, so to speak, this process to develop.] "Šobrīd jau ir uz robežas, tāpēc es saku, ka ir jāatvadās jau no tā, kas jau ir atrasts." [I'm already at the edge now, that's why I say one has to start saying goodbye even to what one has already found.] Māra is explicitly working on her attachment to things – she names it as a problem and frames it as ongoing work. Brīvbode as a tool for developing the capacity to let go. This is the freeshop as infrastructure for a personal practice of detachment. It is a positive framing of the same phenomenon that Rasa describes as generating excess – from Māra's perspective, having a route makes it easier to release. (Māra on attachment as ongoing work)

  • §4.5: #FV3V4W Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Quiet or Reflected Sustainability? #GTJY22 #FV3V4W Māra: "Mammai to lietu nebija daudz, un tās lietas tika visas, nu, ļoti labi uzturētas. Bet tad, kad jau parādījās tie humāno preču veikali, tad savukārt bija otrā drusku galējība." [My mother didn't have many things, and those things were all, well, very well looked after. But then, once the second-hand goods shops (humāno preču veikali, lit. "humanitarian goods shops") appeared, the other extreme came.] (Māra on her mother’s generation)

Two things flagged for when footnotes work:

  1. The long Elīna passage in #QCXR6D Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Letting Go: Attachment Without Price #7Z8WUY #QCXR6D Elīna R. "S1: Bet kā tu nonāci pie tās sajūtas, pie tās atziņas – man jau pietiek? S2: Man vienkārši skapī vairs nav vietas. (smejas) Nu, arī, teiksim, tagad ir ziema, un ir džemperu laiks, un es saprotu, ka es tāpat neuzvelku visus savus džemperus. Nu, tātad man viņu ir acīmredzami par daudz. Un man arī patīk novalkāt lietas. Tur ir kaut kāds tāds, nu, man vismaz, īpašs tā kā kaifs, ka es ar šo lietu esmu tik daudz lietas darījusi kopā, ka viņa ir tik novalkāta, ka viņu, iespējams, pat vairs nevar salabot." [Interviewer: But how did you arrive at that feeling, that realisation – I already have enough? Elīna: There's simply no more space in my wardrobe. (laughs) Well – say it's winter now, sweater season, and I realise I don't wear all my sweaters anyway. So I obviously have too many of them. And I also like wearing things out. There's a kind of – well, for me at least, a special pleasure when I've gone through so much with a thing that it's worn down to the point where maybe it can't even be repaired anymore.] would read better as English-in-text + Latvian footnote.

  2. The humāno preču veikali gloss in #FV3V4W Practices of Divestment, Acquisition and Circulation of Things in a Swapshop in Riga, Latvia #4V8VH7 / Quiet or Reflected Sustainability? #GTJY22 #FV3V4W Māra: "Mammai to lietu nebija daudz, un tās lietas tika visas, nu, ļoti labi uzturētas. Bet tad, kad jau parādījās tie humāno preču veikali, tad savukārt bija otrā drusku galējība." [My mother didn't have many things, and those things were all, well, very well looked after. But then, once the second-hand goods shops (humāno preču veikali, lit. "humanitarian goods shops") appeared, the other extreme came.] deserves the historical footnote you described (post-Soviet humanitarian aid origin) — currently just a parenthetical.

Also worth a pass later: the third Madara quote (“kā apzagusies”) is now translated here as “as if I had stolen something”; in §5.2 you have “At first it felt a bit like I was stealing.” Pick one and propagate.