The Anthropologist As Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-first Century

 
9781785330186: The Anthropologist As Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-first Century

Synopsis

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.

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À propos de l?auteur

Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Among her publications are the monographs Ballet across Borders (1998, Bloomsbury), Dancing at the Crossroads (2007, Berghahn), and Rhythms of Writing (2017, Bloomsbury).

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ISBN 10 :  1785337424 ISBN 13 :  9781785337420
Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2017
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