Mourning, Survival, and Time : Writing Through Crisis / Adia Benton -- Ruminations. Writing in and from the Field / Ieva Jusionyte -- List as Form : Literary, Ethnographic, Long, Short, Heavy, Light / Sasha Su-Ling Welland -- Finding Your Way / Paul Stoller -- The Ecology of What We Write / Anand Pandian -- When Do Words Count? / Kirin Narayan -- Writing Ideas. Read More, Write Less / Ruth Behar -- Pro Tips for Academic Writing / C. Anne Claus -- My Ten Steps for Writing a Book / Kristen R. Ghodsee -- Slow Reading / Michael Lambek -- Digging with the Pen : Writing Archaeology / Zoë Crossland -- Telling Stories. Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling / Carole McGranahan -- Beyond Thin Description : Biography, Theory, Ethnographic Writing / Donna M. Goldstein -- Can't Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives / Sarah Besky -- Ethnographic Writing with Kirin Narayan : An Interview / Carole McGranahan -- On Unreliable Narrators / Sienna R. Craig -- On Responsibility. In Dialogue : Ethnographic Writing and Listening / Marnie Jane Thomson -- Writing with Community / Sara L. Gonzalez -- To Fieldwork, to Write / Kim Fortun -- Quick, Quick, Slow : Ethnography in the Digital Age / Yarimar Bonilla -- That Generative Space between Ethnography and Journalism / Maria D. Vesperi -- The Urgency of Now. Writing about Violence / K. Drybread -- Writing about Bad, Sad, Hard Things / Carole McGranahan -- Writing to Live : On Finding Strength While Watching Ferguson / Whitney BattleBaptiste -- Finding My Muse While Mourning / Chelsi West Ohueri -- Mourning, Survival, and Time : Writing Through Crisis / Adia Benton -- Mourning, Survival, and Time : Writing Through Crisis / A Case for Agitation : On Affect and Writing / Catherine Besteman. Antiracist Writing / Ghassan Hage -- Writing with Love and Hate / Bhrigupati Singh -- Peer Review : What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger / Alan Kaiser -- When They Don't Like What We Write : Criticism of Anthropology as a Diagnostic of Power / Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar -- Academic Authors. Writing Archaeology "Alone," or a Eulogy for a Codirector / Jane Eva Baxter -- Collaboration : From Different Throats Intone One Language? / Matt Sponheimer -- What Is an (Academic) Author? / Mary Murrell -- The Writing behind the Written / Noel B. Salazar -- It's All "Real" Writing / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Dr. Funding, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Grant Writing / Robin M. Bernstein -- Ethnographic Genres. Poetry and Anthropology / Nomi Stone -- "SEA" Stories : Anthropologies and Poetries beyond the Human / Stuart McLean^^^w / Carole McGranahan -- On Unreliable Narrators / Sienna R. Craig -- On Responsibility. In Dialogue : Ethnographic Writing and Listening / Marnie Jane Thomson -- Writing with Community / Sara L. Gonzalez -- To Fieldwork, to Write / Kim Fortun -- Quick, Quick, Slow : Ethnography in the Digital Age / Yarimar Bonilla -- That Generative Space between Ethnography and Journalism / Maria D. Vesperi -- The Urgency of Now. Writing about Violence / K. Drybread -- Writing about Bad, Sad, Hard Things / Carole McGranahan -- Writing to Live : On Finding Strength While Watching Ferguson / Whitney BattleBaptiste -- Finding My Muse While Mourning / Chelsi West Ohueri -- Mourning, Survival, and Time : Writing Through Crisis / Adia Benton -- Dilations / Kathleen Stewart and Lauren Berlant -- Genre Bending, or the Love of Ethnographic Fiction / Jessica Marie Falcone -- Ethnographic Fiction : The Space Between / Roxanne Varzi -- From Real Life to the Magic of Fiction / Ruth Behar -- Becoming and Belonging. On Writing from Elsewhere / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- Writing to Become... / Sita Venkateswar -- Unscholarly Confessions on Reading / Katerina Teaiwa -- Guard Your Heart and Your Purpose : Faithfully Writing Anthropology / Bianca C. Williams -- Writing Anthropology and Such, or, "Once More, with Feeling" / Gina Athena Ulysse -- The Anthropology of Being (Me) / Paul Tapsell -- Writing and Knowing. Writing as Cognition / Barak Kalir -- Thinking Through the Untranslatable / Kevin Carrico -- Freeze-Dried Memory Crumbs : Field Notes from North Korea / Lisa Sang Mi Min -- Writing the Disquiets of a Colonial Field / Ann Laura Stoler -- On Ethnographic Unknowability^^ / Carole McGranahan -- On Unreliable Narrators / Sienna R. Craig -- On Responsibility. In Dialogue : Ethnographic Writing and Listening / Marnie Jane Thomson -- Writing with Community / Sara L. Gonzalez -- To Fieldwork, to Write / Kim Fortun -- Quick, Quick, Slow : Ethnography in the Digital Age / Yarimar Bonilla -- That Generative Space between Ethnography and Journalism / Maria D. Vesperi -- The Urgency of Now. Writing about Violence / K. Drybread -- Writing about Bad, Sad, Hard Things / Carole McGranahan -- Writing to Live : On Finding Strength While Watching Ferguson / Whitney BattleBaptiste -- Finding My Muse While Mourning / Chelsi West Ohueri -- Mourning, Survival, and Time : Writing Through Crisis / Adia Benton -- Catherine Besteman.
Summary:
"WRITING ANTHROPOLOGY gathers fifty three essays on writing from leading anthropologists on their approach to writing and its current practice in the field. In the past several decades, as anthropologists have grappled with questions of how to ethically portray their subjects, ethnographic writing styles have also changed from a detached, objective voice to one that is more humanistic and self-reflexive. To explore these changes in writing styles and approaches, Carole McGranahan curated a series for the blog Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology on the craft of writing and anthropology. This anthology collects expanded versions of these essays, as well as new additions, and raises wide-ranging questions about what it means to write ethnographically. The book is divided into ten sections: Ruminations, Writing Ideas, Telling Stories, On Responsibility, The Urgency of Now, Writing With, Writing Against, Academic Authors, Ethnographic Genres, Becoming and Belonging, and Writing and Knowing. Essays include Ruth Behar on reading as a writer, Adia Benton on how the passage of time can create fuller ethnographic accounts, and Yarimar Bonilla on the temporality of reading and writing in the digital age. Other contributors include Press authors such as Anand Pandian, Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart, Stuart McLean, and Kristen Ghodsee. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology and creative writing"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.