Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Among her publications are the monographs Ballet across Borders (1998, Bloomsbury), Dancing at the Crossroads (2007, Berghahn), and Rhythms of Writing (2017, Bloomsbury).

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Introducing the Anthropologist as Writer: Across and Within Genres
Helena Wulff

PART I: THE ROLE OF WRITING IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREERS

Chapter 1. The Necessity of Being a Writer in Anthropology Today
Dominic Boyer

Chapter 2. Reading, Writing, and Recognition in the Emerging Academy
Don Brenneis

Chapter 3. O Anthropology, Where Art Thou? An Auto-Ethnography of Proposals
Sverker Finnström

Chapter 4. The Craft of Editing: Anthropology's Prose and Qualms
Brian Moeran

Chapter 5. The Anglicization of Anthropology: Opportunities and Challenges
Máiréad Nic Craith

PART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING

Chapter 6. The Anthropologist as Storyteller
Alma Gottlieb

Chapter 7. Writing for the Future
Paul Stoller

Chapter 8. Life-writing: Anthropological Knowledge, Boundary-Making, and the Experiential
Narmala Halstead

Chapter 9. Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse
Kirin Narayan

PART III: REACHING OUT: POPULAR WRITING AND JOURNALISM

Chapter 10. On Some Nice Benefits and One Big Challenge of The Second File
Anette Nyqvist

Chapter 11. The Writer as Anthropologist
Oscar Hemer

Chapter 12. Writing Together: Tensions and Joy between Scholars and Activists
Eva-Maria Hardtmann, Vincent Manoharan, Urmila Devi, Jussi Eskola and Swarna Sabrina Francis

PART IV: WRITING ACROSS GENRES

Chapter 13. Fiction and Anthropological Understanding: A Cosmopolitan Vision
Nigel Rapport

Chapter 14. On Timely Appearances: Anthropology, Art, Literature
Mattias Viktorin

Chapter 15. Digital Narratives in Anthropology
Paula Uimonen

Chapter 16. Writing Otherwise
Ulf Hannerz

Index