The Anthropologist as Writer : : Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century /

The Anthropologist as Writer : : Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century / / ed. by Helena Wulff.

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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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Boyer, Dominic,
Brenneis, Don,
Craith, Máiréad Nic,
Devi, Urmila,
Eskola, Jussi,
Finnström, Sverker,
Francis, Swarna Sabrina,
Gottlieb, Alma,
Halstead, Narmala,
Hannerz, Ulf,
Hardtmann, Eva-Maria,
Hemer, Oscar,
Manoharan, Vincent,
Moeran, Brian,
Narayan, Kirin,
Nyqvist, Anette,
Rapport, Nigel,
Stoller, Paul,
Uimonen, Paula,
Viktorin, Mattias,
Wulff, Helena,
HerausgeberIn:
Wulff, Helena,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres
  • I. The Role of Writing in Anthropological Careers
  • Chapter 1 The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today
  • Chapter 2 Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy
  • Chapter 3 O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals
  • Chapter 4 The Craft of Editing: Anthropology’s Prose and Qualms
  • Chapter 5 The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges
  • II. Ethnographic Writing
  • Chapter 6 The Anthropologist as Storyteller
  • Chapter 7 Writing for the Future
  • Chapter 8 Life-Writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential
  • Chapter 9 Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse
  • III. Reaching Out: Popular Writing and Journalism
  • Chapter 10 On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of the Second File
  • Chapter 11 The Writer as Anthropologist
  • Chapter 12 Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists
  • IV. Writing across Genres
  • Chapter 13 Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision
  • Chapter 14 On Timely Appearances: Literature, Art, Anthropology
  • Chapter 15 Digital Narratives in Anthropology
  • Chapter 16 Writing Otherwise
  • Index

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