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Anthropology off the shelf : anthropologists on writing /
In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books. First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the writer in the anthropologist / Maria D. Vesperi and Alisse Waterston
- Speaking truth to power with books / Howard Zinn
- Remember when writing was fun? : why academics should go on a low syllable, active voice diet / Karen Brodkin
- The bard / Carolyn Nordstrom
- Saggin' and braggin' / Lee D. Baker
- Stories for readers : a few observations from outside the academy / Andrew Barnes
- Writing poverty, drawing readers : stories in Love, sorrow and rage / Alisse Waterston
- Write ous indignation : Black girls, dilemmas of cultural domination and the struggle to speak the skin we are in / Signithia Fordham
- Writing truth to power : racism as statecraft / Arthur K. Spears
- Remembering Octavia / Sharon Ball
- Believing in anthropology as literature / Ruth Behar
- Walking in Zora's shoes or "seek(ing) out de inside meanin' of words" : the intersections of anthropology, ethnography, identity, and writing / Irma McClaurin
- Off the shelf and into oblivion? / Catherine Kingfisher
- "Don't use your data as a pillow" / S. Eben Kirksey
- The trope of the pith helmet : America's anthropology, anthropology's America / Micaela di Leonardo
- The book that wrote me / Roger Sanjek
- Fighting words / Paul Farmer
- Taking chances / Maria D. Vesperi.