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The Anthropologist as Writer: Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

By Helena Wulff

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2016
ISBN
1785330187, 9781785330186
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1128744 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
288\288
Scanned
yes
Time added
2017-03-23 23:35:10
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Description

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.

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