Reflections on Novel Writing in Anthropology
Ethnographers have long struggled with the nebulous in-between spaces of science on the one hand, and story-telling on the other. It was what my frustrated seminar professor described…
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Writing Life No. 20: An Interview with Emma Kowal by Carina Truyts
Figure 1: Emma Kowal writing her thesis in 2006 with 7-month old Maya in Darwin, Australia. Image: supplied. One evening in December 2021, in a small South African…
Rejection journal.
Found in my notebooks from 2019: a proposal. Journal for Rejected Papers of Persistence and Perseverance Aims and scope. This journal, set up to the standards…
[unpacking my] word hoarding
Bamboo airlines generous 45 kg luggage allowance, plus 25kg add on, and back troubling hand luggage… On the hottest day of the year, leaving Notts at 39 for…
Down Down Deeper and Download
lots of things to download here. Articles: https://booksc.org/s/Hutnyk/?signAll=1&ts=0350&order=year Books: https://uk1lib.vip/s/Hutnyk/?signAll=1&ts=0401
What is “Labour-Based Grading”?
(This is an explanation of Labour-Based Grading that I provided to a first-year anthropology class I taught in 2020.) Labour-based grading is not what you are used to,…
On Hazzard and White
Two little intro to the author books that I think are absolute gems – and they will get inside your ear to tell you more about the world…
Why “The Great Replacement Theory” is not a Theory, and why that Matters
The notion of a “theory” comes from science. As such, the term conveys all the legitimacy upon which the scientific method relies. It should not be tossed around…
Helena Wulff reflects on her career
What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing it? It is hard to choose between an…
Dear Anthropologists that I know.
Dear Anthropologists that I know. It is 100 years since Bronislaw Malinowski’s “Argonauts of the Western Pacific” began the terror of enforcing the participant observation fi…
Ethnographic Monographs – or now for something else?
By Herbert Ploegman; Didi Boldewijn, Maya Roettger and Lorenzo Horwitz; Alice Riva, Claudia Rapisarda, Elisabeth Jongmans and Jasper Schotte; Ashley Prather and Maira van Emden Two crumpled up…
Another Kind of Concrete
Another Kind of Concrete by Koushik Banerjea Started reading: I’ve been editing other people’s writing for a living for years, but the best writer with whom I’ve had…
Another Kind of Concrete – Koushik Banerjea
being ill is my excuse for catching up with novels, but I interrupt the stream of hackery to give a progress report on this as its the best…
Ask-Me-Almost-Anything (AMAA): Centering Student Engagement with Ethnographic Monographs by Christine Sargent
“Why is this a book?” The student who volunteered this question during a class discussion could not have known how meaningful – and unsettling – I found the…
Soapbox: on slips and trips.
In the business of selling cultures for quids, and other random translations Once upon a long ago, there was a time when I was more rebelliously young, and…
Pantomime Terror and Global South Asia on Screen
Cheap paperback stocking stuffers… – though I wonder if 1 left in stock contradicts that whole value-scarcity thing. Pretty sure there is more than one.
30 Minute Methods: Jack Boulton at TDTU KhXH&NV
Jack Boulton 30 Minute Methods talk at TDTU, KHOA KHXH&NV,: 30 November 2021 ‘TV, film and literature sci-fi as part of the new literary turn in anthropology’ For…
TGA Seeking Editors!
The Geek Anthropologist is seeking qualified individuals to join our Editorial Board. As an Editor at TGA, responsibilities include: recruiting new contributors and content for the blog and…
Kate Vieira on her book, Writing for Love and Money
Interview by Amy Garey https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-for-love-and-money-9780190877316 Amy Garey: How does migration influence literacy practices? Kate Vieira: Unfortuna…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Rashmi Sadana
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Newly Published: “Camp at the Salon: Anthropological Sense-Making with a Wink”
To camp is a mode of seduction – one which employs flamboyant mannerisms susceptible of a double interpretation; gestures full of duplicity, with a witty meaning for cognoscenti…
How to Publish Your First Book: SAR Press Talks to Robert Caldwell
The mission of SAR Press encompasses not only publishing research at the forefront of anthropology and Southwest and Native studies, but al…
Writing LifeNo. 14: An Interview with Hélène Mialet by Catelijne Coopmans
Image 1: Hélène’s home office. The pandemic has revealed the fragility of our lives and the vulnerability of our bodies. It has also revealed the importance of fleshy…
Writing Life No. 13: An interview with Matthew Wolf-Meyer by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
From the bottom left, clockwise: my writing board (which currently has a note from my kids and a note about a future paper to be written), a stack…