Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? 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.
Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? 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.
Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Among her publications are the monographs Ballet across Borders (1998, Bloomsbury), Dancing at the Crossroads (2007, Berghahn), and Rhythms of Writing (2017, Bloomsbury).
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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
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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