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How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer valuable insight into their writing habits. These reflexive glimpses into personal creativity reveal not only the processes by which theory and ethnography come, in particular cases, to be represented on the page but also supply examples that students may follow or adapt.
List of contents
Introduction: On the Genealogy of Writing Anthropology 1. The Life of Concepts and How They Speak to Experience 2. Ten Preludes to a Preface 3. Writing against conclusion 4. Composing texts and the composition of uprisings: Notes on writing the postcolonial political 5. Public Ritual in Mauritius 6. Writing Whalsay: Reflections on how, why, and for who anthropologists write 7. Writing a Cosmopolitan Anthropology in Recognition of Anyone 8. Diversifying from Within: Diaspora writings in Sweden 9. Dialogic Aesthetics: Notes and nodes in analogical software coding 10. Composing American stiob 11. In the Workshop: Anthropology in a Collaborative Zone of Inquiry Epilogue: Writing the Human: Anthropological accounts as generic fragments
About the author
Morten Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.
