Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing

Acknowledgments  vii
Prologue / Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean  1
Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing / Paper Boat Collective  11
1. The Ambivalent Archive / Angela Garcia  29
2. Writing with Care / Michael Jackson  45
3. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing / Michael Jackson  48
4. Walking and Writing / Anand Pandian  68
5. Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow  71
6. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity / Michael Jackson  91
7. Ta\'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo  94
8. Writing through Intercessors / Stuart McLean  116
9. Desire in Cinema / Anand Pandian  119
10. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops / Stuart McLean  126
11. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions / Tobias Hecht  130
12. Ethnography and Fiction / Anand Pandian  145
13. SEA / Stuart McLean  148
14. Writing Otherwise / Lisa Stevenson  168
15. Origami Conjecture for a Bembé / Todd Ramón Ochoa 172
16. Ethnographic Excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd Ramón Ochoa  185
17. Conversations with a Hunter / Daniella Gandolfo 189
18. On Writing and Surviving / Lisa Stevenson  207
19. A Proper Message / Lisa Stevenson  209
20. Fidelity and Invention / Angela Garcia  222
Epilogue / Kathleen Stewart  225
Bibliography  231
Contributors   241
Index  243