Book
| Title: |
Anthropology off the shelf : anthropologists on writing / edited by Alisse Waterston and Maria D. Vesperi. |
| Published: |
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. |
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| Description: |
xvi, 213 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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: |
Papers originally presented at four panels at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 1999, 200, 2003 and 2005.Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781405189200 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1405189207 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Subject: |
Ethnology -- Authorship -- Congresses.
Literature and anthropology -- Congresses.
Anthropologists -- Attitudes -- Congresses.
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| Authors: |
Waterston, Alisse, 1951-
Vesperi, Maria D.
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| Authors: |
American Anthropological Association. Meeting.
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| HOLLIS number |
011914789 |
| Link to this record |
http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu//accessible.ashx?itemid=%7clibrary%2fm%2faleph%7c011914789
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