Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. On Writing and Writing Well: Ethics, Practice, Story • Carole McGranahan
SECTION I: RUMINATIONS
	1. Writing in and from the Field • Ieva Jusionyte
	2. List as Form: Literary, Ethnographic, Long, Short, Heavy, Light • Sasha Su-LingWelland
	3. Finding Your Way • Paul Stoller
	4. The Ecologyof What We Write • Anand Pandian
	5. When Do Words Count? • Kirin Narayan
SECTION II: WRITING IDEAS
	6. Read More, Write Less • Ruth Behar
	7. Pro Tips for Academic Writing • C. Anne Claus
	8. My Ten Steps for Writing a Book • Kristen R. Ghodsee
	9. Slow Reading • Michael Lambek
	10. Digging with the Pen: Writing Archaeology • Zoë Crossland
SECTION III: TELLING STORIES
	11. Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling • Carole McGranahan
	12. Beyond Thin Description: Biography, Theory, Ethnographic Writing • Donna M. Goldstein
	13. Can’t Get There from Here?Writing Place and Moving Narratives • Sarah Besky
	14. Ethnographic Writing with Kirin Narayan: An Interview • Carole McGranahan
	15. On Unreliable Narrators • Sienna R. Craig
SECTION IV: ON RESPONSIBILITY
	16. In Dialogue: Ethnographic Writing and Listening • Marnie Jane Thomson
	17. Writing with Community • Sara L. Gonzalez
	18. To Fieldwork, to Write • Kim Fortun
	19. Quick, Quick, Slow: Ethnography in the Digital Age • Yarimar Bonilla
	20. That Generative Space between Ethnography and Journalism • Maria D. Vesperi
SECTION V: THE URGENCY OF NOW
	21. Writing about Violence • K. Drybread
	22. Writing about Bad, Sad, Hard Things • Carole McGranahan
	23. Writing to Live: On Finding Strength While Watching Ferguson • Whitney Battle-Baptiste
	24. Finding My Muse While Mourning • Chelsi West Ohueri
	25. Mourning, Survival, and Time: Writing Through Crisis • Adia Benton
SECTION VI: WRITING WITH, WRITING AGAINST
	26. A Case for Agitation: On Affect and Writing • Carla Jones
	27. Antiracist Writing • Ghassan Hage
	28. Writing with Love and Hate • Bhrigupati Singh
	29. Peer Review: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger • Alan Kaiser
	30. When They Don’t Like What We Write: Criticism of Anthropology as a Diagnostic of Power • Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar
SECTION VII: ACADEMIC AUTHORS
	31. Writing Archaeology “Alone,” or a Eulogy for a Codirector • Jane Eva Baxter
	32. Collaboration: From Different Throats Intone One Language? • Matt Sponheimer
	33. What Is an (Academic) Author? • Mary Murrell
	34. The Writing behindthe Written • Noel B. Salazar
	35. It’s All “Real” Writing • Daniel M. Goldstein
	36. Dr. Funding or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Grant Writing • Robin M. Bernstein
SECTION VIII: ETHNOGRAPHIC GENRES
	37. Poetry and Anthropology • Nomi Stone
	38. “SEA” Stories: Anthropologies and Poetries beyond the Human • Stuart McLean
	39. Dilations • Kathleen Stewart and Lauren Berlant
	40. Genre Bending, or the Love of Ethnographic Fiction • Jessica Marie Falcone
	41. Ethnographic Fiction: The Space Between • Roxanne Varzi
	42. From Real Life to the Magic of Fiction • Ruth Behar
SECTION IX: BECOMING AND BELONGING
	43. On Writing from Elsewhere • Uzma Z. Rizvi
	44. Writing to Become . . . • Sita Venkateswar
	45. Unscholarly Confessions on Reading • Katerina Teaiwa
	46. Guard Your Heart and Your Purpose: Faithfully Writing Anthropology • Bianca C. Williams
	47. Writing Anthropology and Such, or “Once More, with Feeling” • Gina Athena Ulysse
	48. The Anthropology of Being (Me) • Paul Tapsell
SECTION X: WRITING AND KNOWING
	49. Writing as Cognition • Barak Kalir
	50. Thinking Through the Untranslatable • Kevin Carrico
	51. Freeze-DriedMemory Crumbs: Field Notes from North Korea • Lisa Sang-Mi Min
	52. Writing the Disquiets of a Colonial Field • Ann Laura Stoler
	53. On Ethnographic Unknowability • Catherine Besteman
Bibliography
Contributors
Index