Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Tables VII
4. Acknowledgments VIII
5. Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres 1
6. I. The Role of Writing in Anthropological Careers
7. Chapter 1 The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today 21
8. Chapter 2 Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy 33
9. Chapter 3 O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals 46
10. Chapter 4 The Craft of Editing: Anthropology’s Prose and Qualms 60
11. Chapter 5 The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges 73
12. II. Ethnographic Writing
13. Chapter 6 The Anthropologist as Storyteller 93
14. Chapter 7 Writing for the Future 118
15. Chapter 8 Life-Writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential 129
16. Chapter 9 Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse 143
17. III. Reaching Out: Popular Writing and Journalism
18. Chapter 10 On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of the Second File 161
19. Chapter 11 The Writer as Anthropologist 172
20. Chapter 12 Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists 188
21. IV. Writing across Genres
22. Chapter 13 Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision 215
23. Chapter 14 On Timely Appearances: Literature, Art, Anthropology 230
24. Chapter 15 Digital Narratives in Anthropology 243
25. Chapter 16 Writing Otherwise 254
26. Index 271