Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing by Waterston, Alisse

Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781444338799)

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Format: Paperback
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Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing by Waterston, Alisse

Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing

$47.95
Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing by Waterston, Alisse

Anthropology Off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing

$47.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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In Anthropology off the Shelf, leading anthropologists reflect on the craft of writing and the passions that fuel their desire to write books.
  • First of its kind volume in anthropology in which prominent anthropologists and 3 respected professionals outside the discipline follow the tradition of the "writers on writing" genre to reflect on all aspects of the writing process
  • Contributors are high-profile in anthropology and many have a strong presence outside the field, in popular culture
  • Unique in its format: short essays, revealing and straightforward in content and writing style


Author: Alisse Waterston
ISBN-10: 144433879X
ISBN-13: 9781444338799
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 01/04/2011
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Alisse Waterston
By Alisse Waterston
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Alisse Waterston is Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Author of Love, Sorrow and Rage: Destitute Women in a Manhattan Residence (1999), she is currently working on two intimate ethnographies: Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Writing My Father's Life and Narrating Poland.

Maria D. Vesperi is Professor of Anthropology at New College of Florida and a trustee of the Poynter Institute. Author of City of Green Benches: Growing Old in a New Downtown (1986), she is currently completing a book on the relationship between ethnographic narrative and narrative journalism and developing a 150-year social history of a utopian community turned company town.

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