TY - BOOK ID - 32089235 TI - The anthropologist as writer : genres and contexts in the twenty-first century PY - 2016 SN - 9781785337420 9781785330186 1785330187 PB - New York Berghahn Books DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Communication in ethnology. KW - Literature and anthropology. KW - Authorship. KW - #SBIB:39A2 KW - #SBIB:309H519 KW - Anthropology and literature KW - Antropologie: methoden en technieken KW - Praktische handleidingen i.v.m. schrijven en spreken KW - Anthropology KW - Communication in ethnology KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Authorship UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32089235 AB - 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 ER -