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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480016703321

Titolo

The anthropologist as writer : genres and contexts in the twenty-first century / / edited by Helena Wulff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-019-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/00723

Soggetti

Ethnology - Authorship

Communication in ethnology

Literature and anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres; Part 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; Part II - Ethnographic Writing; Chapter 6 - The Anthropologist as Storyteller

Chapter 7 - Writing for the FutureChapter 8 - Life-Writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential; Chapter 9 - Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse; Part 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; Part IV - Writing across Genres; Chapter 13 - Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision

Chapter 14 - On Timely Appearances: Literature, Art, AnthropologyChapter 15 - Digital Narratives in Anthropology; Chapter



16 - Writing Otherwise; Index