Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing
by Editor: Alisse Waterston (City University, New York, USA); Editor: Maria D. Vesperi (New College, Florida, USA)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-03-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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 process - Contributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular culture - Unique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing style
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologist | |
| Conceptions. | |
| Speaking Truth to Power with Books | |
| Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low Syllable, Active Voice Diet | |
| The Bard | |
| Saggin' and Braggin' | |
| Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academy | |
| Creations. | |
| Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage | |
| Write-ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are In | |
| Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraft | |
| Remembering Octavia | |
| Believing in Anthropology as Literature | |
| Receptions. | |
| Walking in Zora's Shoes or "Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin' of Words": The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writing | |
| Off the Shelf and Into Oblivion? | |
| "Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow" | |
| The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America's Anthropology, Anthropology's America | |
| The Book that Wrote Me | |
| Fighting Words | |
| Taking Chances | |
| Index | |
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