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Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3879-9
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230 pages
January 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.

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