The Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Helena Wulff, Helena Wulff

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Année: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785330193
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Social Sciences
• Sous-sujet: Social Science Research & Methodology

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.

Index

Abu-Baker, Khawla

with Dan Rabinowitz, 263–264

activism, 188–189

activists, 13, 95, 190–191, 196–197, 200–204

Agee, James

poetic prose, 125

Agre, Phillip

on accountability, 35, 42

Ambedkar, Babasaheb

political views, 192–193, 199, 202

American Anthropological Association, 25–26, 28, 40, 86, 104–105, 109n11

application research job, 9–10, 48, 50–53

Archetti, Eduardo, P.

anthropological perspective in his texts, 3

categories of fiction, 4

Arendt, Hannah

on appearance, 234

on emergence, 13

on reality, 230–231

Arguedas, José Maria

as ethnographer and novelist, 179

Aronowitz, Stanley

on writing as “the last good job in America”, 24

art, 63, 67–68, 94, 177, 180, 230–239, 245, 259

critic, 177

Dalit, 190, 197–201, 205

folk, 63–64, 177

“primitive”, 236

visual, 244

Asad, Talal

on anthropologists “writing up ‘their people’”, 76

on cultural translation, 82

audit, 9, 14, 255

audit culture, 30

Auerbach, Eric

on the “literary”, 216

Austen, Jane

“alter-cultural action” 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 Borges’: “The Ethnographer”, 179–180

Azande, 55

Baert, Patrick

on knowledge, 222

ballet, 5–7. See also dance

Bateson, Gregory

fictional “metalogues” with the daughter Mary Catherine

Bateson, 107

on holistic approach, 220

Baumann, Richard

on performance, 34–35, 41

Becker,...