Savage Ears, Anthro Minds: Writing “in my Culture”
A podcast and blog walk into a bar… Click the image above to check out the podcast on This Anthro Life This …
Writing About Violence (Part II)
After nearly three years of eating almost nothing but the watery beans and undercooked rice I was served while conducting research in …
Writing About Violence (Part I)
Writing is never easy. Writing ethnographically about people who perpetrate violence is exceptionally difficult. Not only does the ethnographer have to cautiously …
Suggestions for Summer Reading: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle to Write
For the past couple of years I’ve been addicted to a series of books by the Norwegian writer, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Presented …
Writing with Community
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Sara Gonzalez as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sara is Assistant Professor of …
Writing as Cognition
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Barak Kalir as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Barak is Associate …
Writing with Love and Hate
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Bhrigupati Singh as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Bhrigupati is Assistant …
The Ruination of Written Words
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Gastón Gordillo as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Gastón is …
Writing in and from the Field
[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Ieva Jusionyte as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Ieva is Assistant Professor …
Unscholarly Confessions on Reading
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Katerina Teaiwa as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Katerina is Head of Department …
Anthropology as Theoretical Storytelling
[This essay is part of the Fall 2015 Savage Minds Writers’ Workshop series.] Anthropologists are storytellers. We tell stories: other’s stories, our …
The Anthropology of Being (Me)
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Paul Tapsell as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Paul is Professor …
List as Form: Literary, Ethnographic, Long, Short, Heavy, Light
[Savage Minds is pleased to publish this essay by guest author Sasha Su-Ling Welland as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Sasha is Associate Professor …
Real Writing
[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Daniel Goldstein as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Daniel is Professor of …
To Fieldwork, To Write
[Savage Minds is pleased to run this essay by guest author Kim Fortun as part of our Writers’ Workshop series. Fortun is Professor of …
Anthropologists Writing: The Fall 2015 Writers’ Workshop Essay Series
It is my pleasure to announce the fourth (and final) season of our Writers’ Workshop series. Each Monday we will share a …
Visual Turn II: Teaching to Take Stock
Encounters with art and design by an anthropologist and curious non-expert in visual culture. Earlier this year I was reading the Internet …