The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

Contents\nTables\nAcknowledgments\nIntroducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres\nI. The Role of Writing in Anthropological Careers\nChapter 1 The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today\nChapter 2 Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy\nChapter 3 O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals\nChapter 4 The Craft of Editing: Anthropology’s Prose and Qualms\nChapter 5 The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges\nII. Ethnographic Writing\nChapter 6 The Anthropologist as Storyteller\nChapter 7 Writing for the Future\nChapter 8 Life-Writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential\nChapter 9 Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse\nIII. Reaching Out: Popular Writing and Journalism\nChapter 10 On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of the Second File\nChapter 11 The Writer as Anthropologist\nChapter 12 Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists\nIV. Writing across Genres\nChapter 13 Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision\nChapter 14 On Timely Appearances: Literature, Art, Anthropology\nChapter 15 Digital Narratives in Anthropology\nChapter 16 Writing Otherwise\nIndex