{"product_id":"writing-anthropology-9781478008125","title":"Writing Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWriting Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory, from ethnography, genre, and the politics of writing to affect, storytelling, authorship, and scholarly responsibility. Anthropological writing is more than just communicating findings: anthropologists write to tell stories that matter, to be accountable to the communities in which they do their research, and to share new insights about the world in ways that might change it for the better. The contributors offer insights into the beauty and the function of language and the joys and pains of writing while giving encouragement to stay at it—to keep writing as the most important way to not only improve one’s writing but to also honor the stories and lessons learned through research. Throughout, they share new thoughts, prompts, and agitations for writing that will stimulate conversations that cut across the hu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWriting Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e is the long-awaited handbook that our discipline desperately needs to move us away from the lingering idea that our texts should be indecipherable to mortals. Carole McGranahan and company have given anthropologists a beautifully wrinkled and coffee-stained road map to help us all get to a writing place that is thoughtful, self-aware, compassionate, and (gasp!) accessible.” -- Jason De León, author of * The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail *\u003cbr\u003e“In this powerful volume, a multitude of ruminations, thoughts, prompts, and provocations flow together like a vibrant stream until we see the lifeblood of contemporary anthropology as a committed way of writing about people that is beholden to a sense of accountability. The accomplished anthropologists featured in this book pursue a shared commitment to writing well. But this is not merely for the sake of more effective explication or theoretical nuance. They aim to better convey the hardships and dignity of humanity itself. This is ethnography at its best: beautifully written, surprising, deeply instructive, and grounded in an ethical practice that never ceases to care about and attend to everything and everyone with whom anthropologists engage.” -- Laurence Ralph, author of * The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence *\u003cbr\u003e\"In these 53 short, blog-style essays, students now have a new, pithy guide to help them think through a wealth of writing issues. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich wordhoard of ideas that focus on 'craft and commitment' in anthropological writing…\" -- David Syring * Anthropology and Humanism *\u003cbr\u003e\"Although \u003ci\u003eWriting Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e is not ostensibly a how-to book, readers seeking strategies to apply to their writing practices should not be disappointed. . . . The essays in this collection resonate, as McGranahan depicts, that ‘anthropology is a writing discipline’ (7). As writers, anthropologists make ideal commentators on their practices of presentation and representation, on their visions for process and product.\" -- Steven E. Gump * Journal of Scholarly Publishing *\u003cbr\u003e\"...\u003ci\u003e Writing Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for clear, truthful, heartfelt, and engaged anthropological writing. It will certainly be one of those books I will turn to for inspiration and solace when I find myself struggling in front of a white screen.\" -- Nastja Slavec * Anthropology Notebooks *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. On Writing and Writing Well: Ethics, Practice, Story \/ Carole McGranahan  1\u003cbr\u003e Section I. Ruminations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Writing in and from the Field \/ Ieva Jusionyte  23\u003cbr\u003e 2. List as Form: Literary, Ethnographic, Long, Short, Heavy, Light \/ Sasha Su-Ling Welland  28\u003cbr\u003e 3. Finding Your Way \/ Paul Stoller  34\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Ecology of What We Write \/ Anand Pandian  37\u003cbr\u003e 5. When Do Words Count? \/ Kirin Narayan  41\u003cbr\u003e Section II. Writing Ideas\u003cbr\u003e 6. Read More, Write Less \/ Ruth Behar  47\u003cbr\u003e 7. Pro Tips for Academic Writing \/ C. Anne Claus  54\u003cbr\u003e 8. My Ten Steps for Writing a Book \/ Kristen R. Ghodsee  58\u003cbr\u003e 9. Slow Reading \/ Michael Lambek  62\u003cbr\u003e 10. Digging with the Pen: Writing Archaeology \/ Zoë Crossland  66\u003cbr\u003e Section III. Telling Stories\u003cbr\u003e 11. Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling \/ Carole McGranahan  73\u003cbr\u003e 12. Beyond Thin Description: Biography, Theory, Ethnographic Writing \/ Donna M. Goldstein  78\u003cbr\u003e 13. Can't Get There from Here? Writing Place and Moving Narratives \/ Sarah Besky  83\u003cbr\u003e 14. Ethnographic Writing with Kirin Narayan: An Interview \/ Carole McGranahan  87\u003cbr\u003e 15. On Unreliable Narrators \/ Sienna R. Craig  93\u003cbr\u003e Section IV. On Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e 16. In Dialogue: Ethnographic Writing and Listening \/ Marnie Jane Thomson  101\u003cbr\u003e 17. Writing with Community \/ Sara L. Gonzalez  104\u003cbr\u003e 18. To Fieldwork, to Write \/ Kim Fortun  110\u003cbr\u003e 19. Quick, Quick, Slow: Ethnography in the Digital Age \/ Yarimar Bonilla  118\u003cbr\u003e 20. That Generative Space between Ethnography and Journalism \/ Maria D. Vesperi  121\u003cbr\u003e Section V. The Urgency of Now\u003cbr\u003e 21. Writing about Violence \/ K. Drybread  127\u003cbr\u003e 22. Writing about Bad, Sad, Hard Things \/ Carole McGranahan  131\u003cbr\u003e 23. Writing to Live: On Finding Strength While Watching Ferguson \/ Whitney Battle-Baptiste  134\u003cbr\u003e 24. Finding My Muse While Mourning \/ Chelsi West Ohueri  137\u003cbr\u003e 25. Mourning, Survival, and Time: Writing Through Crisis \/ Adia Benton  140\u003cbr\u003e Section VI. Writing With, Writing Against\u003cbr\u003e 26. A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing \/ Carla Jones  145\u003cbr\u003e 27. Antiracist Writing \/ Ghassan Hage  149\u003cbr\u003e 28. Writing with Love and Hate \/ Bhrigupati Singh  153\u003cbr\u003e 29. Peer Review: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger \/ Alan Kaiser  158\u003cbr\u003e 30. When They Don't Like What We Write: Criticism of Anthropology as a Diagnostic of Power \/ Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar  163\u003cbr\u003e Section VII. Academic Authors\u003cbr\u003e 31. Writing Archaeology \"Alone,\" or a Eulogy for a Codirector \/ Jane Eva Baxter  169\u003cbr\u003e 32. Collaboration: From Different Throats Intone One Language? \/ Matt Sponheimer  173\u003cbr\u003e 33. What Is and (Academic) Author? \/ Mary Murrell  178\u003cbr\u003e 34. The Writing behind the Written \/ Noel B. Salazar  182\u003cbr\u003e 35. It's All \"Real\" Writing \/ Daniel M. Goldstein  185\u003cbr\u003e 36. Dr. Funding or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Grant Writing \/ Robin M. Bernstein  188\u003cbr\u003e Section VIII. Ethnographic Genres\u003cbr\u003e 37. Poetry and Anthropology \/ Nomi Stone  195\u003cbr\u003e 38. \"SEA\" Stories: Anthropologies and Poetries beyond the Human \/ Stuart McLean  201\u003cbr\u003e 39. Dilations \/ Kathleen Stewart and Lauren Berlant  206\u003cbr\u003e 40. Genre Bending, or the Love of Ethnographic Fiction \/ Jessica Marie Falcone  212\u003cbr\u003e 41. Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between \/ Roxanne Varzi  220\u003cbr\u003e 42. From Real Life to the Magic of Fiction \/ Ruth Behar  223\u003cbr\u003e Section IX. Becoming and Belonging\u003cbr\u003e 43. On Writing from Elsewhere \/ Uzma Z. Rizvi  229\u003cbr\u003e 44. Writing to Become . . . \/ Sita Venkateswar  234\u003cbr\u003e 45. Unscholarly Confessions on Reading \/ Katerina Teaiwa  239\u003cbr\u003e 46. Guard Your Heart and Your Purpose: Faithfully Writing Anthropology \/ Bianca C. Williams  246\u003cbr\u003e 47. Writing Anthropology and Such, or \"Once More, with Feeling\" \/ Gina Athena Ulysse  251\u003cbr\u003e 48. The Anthropology of Being (Me) \/ Paul Tapsell  256\u003cbr\u003e Section X. Writing and Knowing\u003cbr\u003e 49. Writing as Cognition \/ Barak Kalir  263\u003cbr\u003e 50. Thinking Through the Untranslatable \/ Kevin Carrico  266\u003cbr\u003e 51. Freeze-Dried Memory Crumbs: Field Notes from North Korea \/ Lisa Sang Mi Min  270\u003cbr\u003e 52. Writing the Disquiets of a Colonial Field \/ Ann Laura Stoler  274\u003cbr\u003e 53. On Ethnographic Unknowability \/ Catherine Besteman  280\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  283\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  293\u003cbr\u003e Index  305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867285467479,"sku":"9781478008125","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478008125.jpg?v=1722282596","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writing-anthropology-9781478008125","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}