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"WRITING ANTHROPOLOGY gathers fifty three essays on writing from leading anthropologists on their approach to writing and its current practice in the field. In the past several decades, as anthropologists have grappled with questions of how to ethically portray their subjects, ethnographic writing styles have also changed from a detached, objective voice to one that is more humanistic and self-reflexive. To explore these changes in writing styles and approaches, Carole McGranahan curated a series for the blog Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology on the craft of writing and anthropology. This anthology collects expanded versions of these essays, as well as new additions, and raises wide-ranging questions about what it means to write ethnographically. The book is divided into ten sections: Ruminations, Writing Ideas, Telling Stories, On Responsibility, The Urgency of Now, Writing With, Writing Against, Academic Authors, Ethnographic Genres, Becoming and Belonging, and Writing and Knowing. Essays include Ruth Behar on reading as a writer, Adia Benton on how the passage of time can create fuller ethnographic accounts, and Yarimar Bonilla on the temporality of reading and writing in the digital age. Other contributors include Press authors such as Anand Pandian, Lauren Berlant, Kathleen Stewart, Stuart McLean, and Kristen Ghodsee. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology and creative writing"--

Anthropologists' writings --- Anthropology --- Authorship

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Thanks to Renzo Duin’s annotated translation, the voice of Lodewijk Schmidt—an Afrodiasporic Saramakka Maroon from Surinam—is finally available for Anglophone audiences worldwide. More than anything else, Schmidt’s three mid-twentieth-century ethnographic accounts tell the tragic story of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands (northern Brazil, and southern Suriname and French Guiana). Schmidt’s is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism, in which Indigenous Peoples and African Diaspora communities, both victims of colonialism, vilify each other falling privy to the divide-and-conquer mentality mechanisms of colonialism. Accounts like that of the death and mourning of a magnificent Indigenous leader, Alapité, on 13-14 August 1941, suggest a deep respect on the part of the Maroon author, while his accounts also show his awareness of how the Indigenous Peoples vilified the Maroons. Beyond the ethnographic element, Duin argues that Schmidt was sent on a covert mission to determine whether or not the Nazis had engaged in covert missions and if they had established bases and airfields in the region. As current ecological disasters, incurred by neocolonial, neoliberal and geopolitical practices, threaten to completely destroy the Amazonian forests that Schmidt describes, his meticulous accounts underscore the predetermined tragedy that is the result of the European and later North-American presence in present-day Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil. Duin’s profound knowledge of the history, topography, and fauna of the region contextualizes Schmidt’s ethnographic accounts and forces us to take account of the catastrophe that is deforestation and ethnocide of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Guiana Highlands.

Anthropologists. --- Schmidt, Lodewijk Juliaan,

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This text documents decades of letters written, received, and archived by the book's author. The author revisits her correspondence with academic colleagues, lawyers, politicians, military officers, and many others, all with unique and insightful perspectives on a variety of social and political issues. She uses personal and professional correspondence as a way of examining complex issues and dialogues that might not be available by other means. By compiling these letters, the author allows us to take an intimate look at how she interacts with people across multiple fields, disciplines, and outlooks. Arranged chronologically by decade, the book follows the author from her early career and efforts to change patriarchal policies at UC, Berkeley, to her efforts to fight against climate change and minimize environmental degradation.

Anthropology --- Anthropologists --- Human beings --- Philosophy. --- History --- Nader, Laura --- Laura Nader, letters, feminism,. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig up evidence of the creation of an epistemology of knowledge and its transnational connections. The research on which this book is based suggests that the artefacts created in fieldwork, offices, libraries, laboratories, museums, and other places and experiences – beyond the important fact that these places and situations involved actors other than the anthropologists themselves – have been different things during their troubled existence. The book seeks to make these differences apparent, highlighting rather than concealing the relationships between partial modes of making and being ‘Afro’ as a subject of science. If the artefacts created in a variety of situations have been different things, we should ask what sort of things they were and how the actors involved in their creation sought to make them meaningful. The book foregrounds these discontinuous and ever-changing contours.

Black people --- Ethnology --- Anthropologists --- Historiography. --- History --- Sources. --- Study and teaching. --- Methodology.

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""Je suis en train d'écrire un texte qui intègre des aspects de mon expérience d'anthropologue politique - et qui trouve son origine dans un autre grand mouvement social, celui de Mai 68, auquel j'ai activement participé - quand les Gilets jaunes font irruption dans la vie politique. Au coeur de cette réflexion a surgi - incontournable - le fait que les humains, qu'on a dits si souvent enclins à obéir, à se soumettre, à plébisciter l'autorité et l'homme providentiel, manifestent une inclination puissante à s'assembler, non seulement pour débattre, mais aussi pour agir. L'anthropologie du temps présent offre de précieux instruments pour appréhender les tensions et les soubresauts qui se font jour un peu partout aujourd'hui. Je relate dans ce livre la manière dont s'est imposée l'urgence de porter un regard différent sur le pouvoir et les lieux d'où s'énonce une parole citoyenne." Une anthropologie de la politique pour comprendre ce qu'est la prise de parole publique, émergence d'une expression démocratique."--Page 4 of cover

Anthropologists --- Political activists --- Direct democracy --- Political anthropology --- Abélès, Marc, --- Mouvements sociaux --- Democracy --- Referendum --- Direct legislation --- Ethnology --- Political science --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Persons --- Political participation --- Activists, Political --- Anthropological aspects --- Abélès, Marc. --- Abélès, M. --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:324H73 --- #SBIB:324H74 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Politieke verandering: oppositie en minderheid, protest, politiek geweld --- Politieke verandering: sociale bewegingen --- Anthropologists - France - Biography --- Political activists - France - Biography --- Political anthropology - France --- Abélès, Marc, - 1950 --- -Mouvements sociaux --- -Anthropologists