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Anthropology off the Shelf : Anthropologists on Writing

ISBN: 9781405189200 | 1405189207
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/9/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists consider the craft of writing and the deeply-rooted passions that fuel their desire to write books. In eighteen original essays, the contributors reveal their inspirations and worries, their narrative strategies and imagined audiences, their habits and how they get people to read what they write. The authors reflect on the very personal decisions required to take a work of anthropology from its initial conception to its creation, and beyond that to its reception by actual readers.This path-... MORE
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Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Notes on Contributorsp. ix
Forewordp. xiii
Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologistp. 1
Conceptionsp. 13
Speaking Truth to Power with Booksp. 15
Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low Syllable, Active Voice Dietp. 21
The Bardp. 35
Saggin' and Braggin'p. 46
Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academyp. 60
Creationsp. 63
Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Ragep. 65
Write-ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are Inp. 79
Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraftp. 93
Remembering Octaviap. 101
Believing in Anthropology as Literaturep. 106
Receptionsp. 117
Walking in Zora's Shoes or "Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin' of Words": The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writingp. 119
Off the Shelf and into Oblivion?p. 134
"Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow"p. 146
The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America's Anthropology, Anthropology's Americap. 160
The Book that Wrote Mep. 172
Fighting Wordsp. 182
Taking Chancesp. 191
Indexp. 203
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Alisse Waterston is Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Author of Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence (1999), she is currently working on two intimate ethnographies: Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Writing My Father’s Life and Narrating Poland.

Maria D. Vesperi is Professor of Anthropology at New College of Florida and a trustee of the Poynter Institute. Author of City of Green Benches: Growing Old in a New Downtown (1986), she is currently completing a book on the relationship between ethnographic narrative and narrative journalism and developing a 150-year social history of a utopian community turned company town.



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