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Anthropology off the shelf : anthropologists on writing / edited by Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi.
Penn Museum Library GN307.7 .A59 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Authorship.
- Ethnology.
- Literature and anthropology.
- Anthropologists--Attitudes.
- Anthropologists.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 213 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Summary:
- This path-breaking anthology offers rich detail on how writers steer through difficult issues of racism, sexism, real and imagined critics, and ethical quandaries. From captivating first-person accounts, the reader gets sharp insight into the creative process and the challenges of bringing new ideas into the public conversation.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781405189200
- 1405189207
- OCLC:
- 262893281
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