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Theory and Methodology
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- ISBN 9781785337420
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Her publications include Ballet across Borders (1998, Bloomsbury), Dancing at the Crossroads (2007, Berghahn), and the edited volumes The Emotions (2007, Bloomsbury) and Ethnographic Practice in the Present (with Marit Melhuus and Jon P. Mitchell 2010, Berghahn).
