Anthropology Shelf

Herausgeber: Waterston, Alisse; Vesperi, Maria D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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-breaking anthology offers rich detail on how writers steer through difficult issues of racism, sexism, real and imagined critics, and ethical quandaries. In captivating first-person accounts, the reader gets sharp insight into the creative process and the challenges of bringing new ideas into the public conversation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189200
• ISBN-10: 1405189207
• Artikelnr.: 26378055

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.
Notes on Contributors.
Foreword (Cheryl Mwaria).
1. Introduction: The Writer in the Anthropologist (Maria D. Vesperi and
Alisse Waterston).
Part I: Conceptions.
2. Speaking Truth to Power with Books (Howard Zinn).
3. Remember When Writing Was Fun? Why Academics Should Go On a Low
Syllable, Active Voice Diet (Karen Brodkin).
4. The Bard (Carolyn Nordstrom)
5. Saggin' and Braggin' (Lee D. Baker).
6. Stories for Readers: A Few Observations from Outside the Academy (Andrew
Barnes).
Part II: Creations.
7. Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage
(Alisse Waterston).
8. Write¿ous Indignation: Black Girls, Dilemmas of Cultural Domination and
the Struggle to Speak the Skin We Are In (Signithia Fordham).
9. Writing Truth to Power: Racism as Statecraft (Arthur K. Spears).
10. Remembering Octavia (Sharon Ball).
11. Believing in Anthropology as Literature (Ruth Behar).
Part III:  Receptions.
12. Walking in Zora's Shoes or "Seek[ing] Out de Inside Meanin' of Words":
The Intersections of Anthropology, Ethnography, Identity, and Writing (Irma
McClaurin).
13. Off the Shelf and Into Oblivion? (Catherine Kingfisher).
14. "Don't Use Your Data as a Pillow" (S. Eben Kirksey).
15. The Trope of the Pith Helmet: America's Anthropology, Anthropology's
America (Micaela di Leonardo).
16. The Book that Wrote Me (Roger Sanjek).
17. Fighting Words (Paul Farmer).
18. Taking Chances (Maria D. Vesperi).
Index.

Rezensionen

"Anthropology off the shelf ought to be on everyintroductory reading list..." (Journal of the RoyalAnthropological Institute, August 2010)

"The essays are both provocative and provoking, compellingand edgy. Whether this thrust in anthropology or in academia ingeneral will continue, books like this are required to keep theintellectual energy within the academy vital and engaged.Indispensible reading across disciplines. Summing Up:Essential." (CHOICE, October 2009)"This wonderful collection of essays explores an essentialquestion: how do we tell an untold story? The answers willinspire any anthropologist-writer with the nerve to take ashot."
-David Kushner, author of Levittown and Masters of Doom

"This book should be on many of our must read lists! Itsprovocative contents should inspire anthropologists and othersocial scientists to think more courageously about what it canmean--both for us and our potentially expanded and diversifiedaudiences--if more of us "come out" assertingidentities as writers. This collection makes a compellingargument that anthropological writing needn't be confined toconventional "academese," which seriously limits our public reachand social impact."
-Faye V. Harrison, Professor of Anthropology and Director ofAfrican American Studies, University of Florida, Author ofOutsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the GlobalAge

"Turning research into stories that matter to all of us is anart scholars too rarely aspire to, let alone master. Theanthropologists in this collection tell the tale of thatchallenge with inspiring passion, showing in the telling whatgifted writers they have become."
-Trevor Brown, Professor Emeritus, Indiana UniversityBloomington

"It's inspiring to see behind the curtain of anthropologists,some of the world's most influential storytellers, read of theirinsecurities, passion, and a sense of mission one essayist says isthe human responsibility "to creatively offer something to theworld.""
-Keith Woods, Dean, The Poynter Institute