Revisiting a Writing Process: Ode to Academic Freedom #humanrights
This week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from one of Allegra’s founders…
Tag: writing
An article! An article!
If there’s one thing that helps to ground you when you’ve felt voiceless or powerless in the past, it’s when you see the writing equivalent of your name…
Return of the Anthro/Zine
Last May I introduced you to Anthropozine, a new undergraduate venue associated with the journal Anthropology Now. The concept behind the zine was to get college students interested in…
Niccolo de’ Conti (and others) on the Lontar Palm
Yesterday I put up a post about Niccolo de' Conti, one of the more interesting Europeans to visit Indonesia before the sixteenth century. His account…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What that something else is has been notoriously difficult to name, pre…
Ethnography as Improv
“Anthropology is not a social science tout court, but something else. What th…
Truthtelling
At some point this year, my dissertation shifted from a (largely unwritten) traditional ethnography to an intentional experiment on writing/thinking/doing disability as a scholar. This was a change…
So You’re an Undergraduate and You Want to Get Published
By Rayna Elizabeth If you are thinking of pursing a career in academia or as a writer in general, you might want to attempt to submit your research…
Reading fiction as therapy
Recently I found a website that offers fiction as therapy. You have a consultation of sorts and they send you away with a list of novels to read…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the task of writing a literature review? Frustrated by your students…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Feel like you’re staring into an abyss preparing for your qualifying exams? Paralyzed by the…
Change jobs, return to research or enrol in further higher ed?
You get to a point in your life where you start to reflect on your skill set and your current responsibilities and you wonder whether these match up…
A photo fell out of a book…
My book group (I say with inner pleasure at finally belonging to one) usually decide on books to read for the coming months by asking for suggestions from…
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography
Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography: literary-ethnography: This is a podcast from a panel session sponsored by the Society for Applied Anthropology at the 2009 American Anthropological Asso…
Writing, writing, writing
Writing looms large in my life now. I’m getting better at it than I was. I like short form [140 characters] but adore longer form, like blogs. And…
Summer Writing: Units of Time
In the 2002 rom-com About a Boy, Hugh Grant plays a well to do bachelor who lives off the royalties of a song his deceased father produced. With no…
Summer Writing: Practice Community
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Lindsay Bell In the middle of the teaching term, summer is the far away season where you imagine that all of your academic,…
Three! (anthro-po-etry)
100 words I stood on the edge of the square… a lot of strangers were there… I heard the echos of their grey talking about the weather… You…