{"product_id":"crumpled-paper-boat-9780822363293","title":"Crumpled Paper Boat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrumpled Paper Boat\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the possibilities and limits of a literary anthropology that bends the conventions of ethnographic voice and form to engage with writing as a material practice rather than a transparent representational medium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In a ‘post-truth’ world, where facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, this publication is of timely importance. . . . It is a text that encourages the reader to embrace writing as a practice immanent to the world, rather than a detached reflection upon society and our place within it.\" -- Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“There is still much to learn about cultivating uncertainty, failure and collaboration in geographic writing and research, and this volume invites just this kind of casting off.” -- Ursula Lang * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an outstanding volume to use as provocation, to reflect on one’s own practice and history, as well as for teaching. I can see students becoming excited at the possibility of an anthropology that takes as its departure point the very hesitations and unknowns that we are schooled to suppress.\" -- Paloma Gay y Blasco * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume challenges anthropological conventions on multiple fronts and provides both an energizing example and a refreshing reminder that powerful writing energizes our knowing and can bring anthropology out of its mostly self-imposed limits of speaking.\" -- David Syring * Anthropology and Humanism *\u003cbr\u003e\"The Paper Boat Collective . . . demonstrates that not only can ethnography survive, but by incorporating an aesthetic mode of uncertainty, vulnerability, and adventure, it is better equipped to connect with the violent storms and hopeful struggles of a complex and untidy world.… The sense of journey is palpable in the persistent exhortation to go beyond: beyond the tangible, beyond the human, beyond oneself, beyond the real.\" -- Jason Danely * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Prologue \/ Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean  1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing \/ Paper Boat Collective  11\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Ambivalent Archive \/ Angela Garcia  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Writing with Care \/ Michael Jackson  45\u003cbr\u003e 3. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing \/ Michael Jackson  48\u003cbr\u003e 4. Walking and Writing \/ Anand Pandian  68\u003cbr\u003e 5. Anthropoetry \/ Adrie Kusserow  71\u003cbr\u003e 6. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity \/ Michael Jackson  91\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ta'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal \/ Stefania Pandolfo  94\u003cbr\u003e 8. Writing through Intercessors \/ Stuart McLean  116\u003cbr\u003e 9. Desire in Cinema \/ Anand Pandian  119\u003cbr\u003e 10. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops \/ Stuart McLean  126\u003cbr\u003e 11. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions \/ Tobias Hecht  130\u003cbr\u003e 12. Ethnography and Fiction \/ Anand Pandian  145\u003cbr\u003e 13. SEA \/ Stuart McLean  148\u003cbr\u003e 14. Writing Otherwise \/ Lisa Stevenson  168\u003cbr\u003e 15. Origami Conjecture for a Bembé \/ Todd Ramón Ochoa 172\u003cbr\u003e 16. Ethnographic Excess \/ Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa  185\u003cbr\u003e 17. Conversations with a Hunter \/ Daniella Gandolfo 189\u003cbr\u003e 18. On Writing and Surviving \/ Lisa Stevenson  207\u003cbr\u003e 19. A Proper Message \/ Lisa Stevenson  209\u003cbr\u003e 20. Fidelity and Invention \/ Angela Garcia  222\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \/ Kathleen Stewart  225\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  231\u003cbr\u003e Contributors   241\u003cbr\u003e Index  243\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406101094743,"sku":"9780822363293","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363293.jpg?v=1730494530","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crumpled-paper-boat-9780822363293","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}