Description
- First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the "writers on writing" genre to reflect on all aspects of the writing process
- Contributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular culture
- Unique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing style
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"The essays are both provocative and provoking, compelling and edgy. Whether this thrust in anthropology or in academia in general will continue, books like this are required to keep the intellectual energy within the academy vital and engaged. Indispensible reading across disciplines. Summing Up: Essential." (CHOICE, October 2009)
"This wonderful collection of essays explores an essential question: how do we tell an untold story? The answers will inspire any anthropologist-writer with the nerve to take a shot."
-David Kushner, author of Levittown and Masters of Doom
"This book should be on many of our must read lists! Its provocative contents should inspire anthropologists and other social scientists to think more courageously about what it can mean-both for us and our potentially expanded and diversified audiences-if more of us "come out" asserting identities as writers. This collection makes a compelling argument that anthropological writing needn't be confined to conventional "academese," which seriously limits our public reach and social impact."
-Faye V. Harrison, Professor of Anthropology and Director of African American Studies, University of Florida, Author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age
"Turning research into stories that matter to all of us is an art scholars too rarely aspire to, let alone master. The anthropologists in this collection tell the tale of that challenge with inspiring passion, showing in the telling what gifted writers they have become."
-Trevor Brown, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University Bloomington
"It's inspiring to see behind the curtain of anthropologists, some of the world's most influential storytellers, read of their insecurities, passion, and a sense of mission one essayist says is the human responsibility "to creatively offer something to the world.""
-Keith Woods, Dean, The Poynter Institute
Book Information
ISBN 9781444338799
Author Alisse Waterston
Format Paperback
Page Count 230
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 340g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 18mm
