The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781785337420 (ISBN)

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Accessibly written so as to attract students, scholars and generalists.

Explores new ways of writing anthropology.

Takes different anthropological genres seriously.

Provides both theories and techniques for writing anthropology.

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.

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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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

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2017
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781785337420 / 9781785337420
Zustand	Neuware