ISBN:
9781785330193
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
288 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Theory & Methodology in Anthropology
Abstract:
Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres -- Helena Wulff -- PART I: THE ROLE OF WRITING IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREERS -- Chapter 1. The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today -- Dominic Boyer -- Chapter 2. Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy -- Don Brenneis -- Chapter 3. O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals -- Sverker Finnström -- Chapter 4. The Craft of Editing: Anthropology's Prose and Qualms -- Brian Moeran -- Chapter 5. The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges -- Máiréad Nic Craith -- PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING -- Chapter 6. The Anthropologist as Storyteller -- Alma Gottlieb -- Chapter 7. Writing for the Future -- Paul Stoller -- Chapter 8. Life-writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential -- Narmala Halstead -- Chapter 9. Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse -- Kirin Narayan -- PART III: REACHING OUT: POPULAR WRITING AND JOURNALISM -- Chapter 10. On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of The Second File -- Anette Nyqvist -- Chapter 11. The Writer as Anthropologist -- Oscar Hemer -- Chapter 12. Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists -- Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Vincent Manoharan, Urmila Devi, Jussi Eskola and Swarna Sabrina Francis -- PART IV: WRITING ACROSS GENRES -- Chapter 13. Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision -- Nigel Rapport -- Chapter 14. On Timely Appearances: Anthropology, Art, Literature -- Mattias Viktorin -- Chapter 15. Digital Narratives in Anthropology -- Paula Uimonen -- Chapter 16. Writing Otherwise -- Ulf Hannerz -- Index --
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