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The Anthropologist as Writer
Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century
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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 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.
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Index
Abu-Baker, Khawla
with Dan Rabinowitz, 263ā264
activism, 188ā189
activists, 13, 95, 190ā191, 196ā197, 200ā204
Agee, James
poetic prose, 125
Agre, Phillip
on accountability, 35, 42
Ambedkar, Babasaheb
political views, 192ā193, 199, 202
American Anthropological Association, 25ā26, 28, 40, 86, 104ā105, 109n11
application research job, 9ā10, 48, 50ā53
Archetti, Eduardo, P.
anthropological perspective in his texts, 3
categories of fiction, 4
Arendt, Hannah
on appearance, 234
on emergence, 13
on reality, 230ā231
Arguedas, JosƩ Maria
as ethnographer and novelist, 179
Aronowitz, Stanley
on writing as āthe last good job in Americaā, 24
art, 63, 67ā68, 94, 177, 180, 230ā239, 245, 259
critic, 177
Dalit, 190, 197ā201, 205
folk, 63ā64, 177
āprimitiveā, 236
visual, 244
Asad, Talal
on anthropologists āwriting up ātheir peopleāā, 76
on cultural translation, 82
audit, 9, 14, 255
audit culture, 30
Auerbach, Eric
on the āliteraryā, 216
Austen, Jane
āalter-cultural actionā in her fiction, 217
as an ethnographer of marriage and kinship, 4
her characters, 217
inspiring anthropologists, 144
autobiography, 94, 174, 178, 236
Avelar, Idelber
on Borgesā: āThe Ethnographerā, 179ā180
Azande, 55
Baert, Patrick
on knowledge, 222
ballet, 5ā7. See also dance
Bateson, Gregory
fictional āmetaloguesā with the daughter Mary Catherine
Bateson, 107
on holistic approach, 220
Baumann, Richard
on performance, 34ā35, 41
Becker,...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres
- I. The Role of Writing in Anthropological Careers
- II. Ethnographic Writing
- III. Reaching Out: Popular Writing and Journalism
- IV. Writing across Genres
- Index