1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202005903316

Titolo

Anthropology off the shelf [[electronic resource] ] : anthropologists on writing / / edited by Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Chichester, West Sussex, : Blackwell, 2009

ISBN

1-282-11654-1

9786612116544

1-4443-0882-3

1-4443-0883-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WaterstonAlisse <1951->

VesperiMaria D

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Ethnology - Authorship

Literature and anthropology

Anthropologists - Attitudes

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1: Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologist; Part I: Conceptions; 2: Speaking Truth to Power with Books; 3: Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low Syllable, Active Voice Diet; 4: The Bard; 5: Saggin' and Braggin'; 6: Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academy; Part II: Creations; 7: Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage

8: Write-ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are In9: Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraft; 10: Remembering Octavia; 11: Believing in Anthropology as Literature; Part III: Receptions; 12: Walking in Zora's Shoes or "Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin' of Words": The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writing; 13: Off the Shelf and into Oblivion?; 14: "Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow"; 15: The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America's Anthropology, Anthropology's America; 16: The Book that Wrote Me



17: Fighting Words18: Taking Chances; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books.First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the "writers on writing" genre to reflect on all aspects of the writing processContributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular cultureUnique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827315503321

Autore

Davies Bronwyn <1945->

Titolo

New lives in an old land : re-turning to the colonisation of New South Wales through stories of my parents and their ancestors / / Bronwyn Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-44671-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Brill's Specials in Modern History ; ; Volume 4

Disciplina

994.4020922

Soggetti

New South Wales History Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- PART 1: Picking at the Skin of Silence: Stories of My Parents and Grandparents -- 1 Growing up at 98 Upper Street -- 2 Alice (Al) Nivison and Euston Blomfield -- 3 Norma Nivison Blomfield -- 4 Jean Carty and George William Hope Davies -- 5 Thomas Alfred Davies (Tom) -- PART 2: Of Princes, Paupers and Soldiers: Stories of My Father's Family -- 6 Rodri Mawr, King of All Wales -- 7 Danish Princes and Princesses -- 8 David Campbell and the Bushrangers -- 9 From Soldier to Farmer to Magistrate: Thomas Alfred Davies and Maria Louisa Campbell -- 10 Small Selectors: Margaret Miles and Michael Carty -- PART 3: Of Judges



and Surveyors, Sailors and Soldiers, Convicts and Farmers: Stories of My Mother's Family -- Introduction to Part 3 -- 11 The First Fleet. David Collins: Buried in Oblivion? -- 12 The Irish Uprising: Thomas Blomfield in Ireland -- 13 Richard Brooks: A Tragic Journey -- 14 Thomas Valentine (Val) Blomfield: At War with Napoleon -- 15 Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land: David Collins and His Descendants -- 16 Opening Up the Interior of New South Wales: William Cox -- 17 A Woman's View of the Colony: Christiana Brooks -- 18 From Soldier to Farmer: Thomas Valentine and Christiana Jane Brooks -- 19 Deputy Surveyor General: Samuel Perry and Surveying and Mapping the Land -- 20 From Scottish Tenant Farmers to Landed Gentry: Mary Wightman and Abraham Nivison -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

This book re-turns to the colonisation of New South Wales through the lives of the author's ancestors. By looking hard and listening carefully, by being prepared not to look away, and at the same time, by delving with love into the specificity of those ancestral lives, this research entangles the author, and the reader, in the acts of colonisation that are taken for granted in their present day lives. Through letters, journals, photos, portraits, newspaper clippings and official records, the author re-turns to the spacetimemattering of colonial lives. She finds the means to re-think the scarifications of the present, of people and landscapes. Bringing concepts from Deleuze and Barad, among others, she re-thinks the way history might be done.