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A Collection of Creative Anthropologies brings together a series of creative work of anthropologists who share the art of writing that arises from 'ordinary' engagement and reveals its potential for the reimagining of anthropological futures and alternative worlds. This is a collection of creative anthropology anchored in experimentality and encouragement. A book that defies imaginaries of academic convention through the cultivation of a mundus imaginalis requiring moments of pause, of introspection, and of discomfort. This centring of creativity at the heart of anthropology subtly conveys how the complex ethical and moral issues around fieldwork and anthropological theorising can be reflected on through writing otherwise, in creative spaces such as this book. A Collection of Creative Anthropologies fits the current call for radical revisions of the academic canon in anthropology, and the social sciences and humanities more broadly.
List of contents
The Wilderness of Creation(preface) Fiona Murphy and Eva van Roekel.- Drowning in Blue Light (flash fiction) Susan Wardell.- Waves (poetry) Maruska Svasek.- A Family Annihilation Tour (essay) Susanna M. Hoffman.- Early Grey (short story) Fiona Murphy.- Etranger. Est le nom d'une frontière(poetry) Ana Ivasiuc.- The Story of the Man with Three Braids (short story) Michael Jackson.- Observations (short story) Alisse Waterston.- Roots (short story) Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Ariaga.- Rivers of (Im)possibility (graphic novel) Charlie Rumsbyand Ben Thomas.- Ordinary Art (short story) Eva van Roekel Cordiviola and Fiona Murphy.- Worlds Apart? (poetry) Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.- Insurrection Day (flash ethnography) Carole McGranahan.- Some Divine Phenomena (poetry) Hilary Morgan V. Leathem.- what remains (short story) Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Urmilla Deshpande 4.- Hey! Give Me Back My Saviour Complex (theatre) Richard Thornton.- Love in Ghana (poetry) Dilys Asamoah Amoabeng.- Where Wild StrawberriesGrow (short story) Helena Wulff.- 'Get Me Oot this Pleiter!' (poetry) Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon.- Water/Sail-e-aab (essay) Aleeha Ali.- A writer and artist; an ethnographer and research participant; a mother and daughter (watercolor painting) Priyanka Borpujari.- Jabès amongst Songhay Sorcerers (essay) Paul Stoller.- A Stranger to the Weave (short story) Anand Pandian.- Game Over (short story) Nikki Mulder.- Never Buried, That War- (poetry) Darcy Alexandra.- Lucinda (song) Kristina Jacobsen.- Threshold (short story) Eva van Roekel Cordiviola.- Four Musicians and the Fates (short story) Kayla Rush.- Hubris (song) Ioannis Tsioulakis with Pro/Schema Ensemble.- Pigs (short story) Horacio Esber.- The Púca(short story) James Cuffe.- My Visit to the University of Negative Capability (short story) Derek Moss 5.- War Game and Other Poems (poetry) Nomi Stone.- The Debt (short story) Veronika Groke.- Afterword. Reading and Writing in the Company of Anthropologists (short story) Alisse Waterston
