LITERATURE, WRITING & ANTHROPOLOGY: FURTHER READING

Literature, Writing & Anthropology: A Further Reading List

Compiled by Shannon Dugan Iverson & Darren Byler

This theme list is part of the curated collection on Literature, Writing & Anthropology

FURTHER READING

Marc Auge, In the Metro (University of Minnesota Press, 2002).

Ruth Behar, Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993).

-- Women Writing Culture. Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordon, eds. (Los Angelas: University of California Press, 1996).

Joao Biehl, Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment. (Los Angelas: University of California Press, 2006).

Michael Carrithers, “The Anthropologist as Author,” Anthropology Today, 4(4), 1988.

James Clifford, “Introduction: Partial Truths,” in James Clifford and George Marcus, eds., Writing Culture (California, 1986).

--The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art (Harvard University Press, 1988).

--Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 1997).

Vincent Crapanzano, “Hermes’ Dilemma: The Masking of Subversion in Ethnographic Description,”  in James Clifford and George Marcus, eds., Writing Culture (California, 1986).

--Imaginative Horizons: An Essay in Literary-Philosophical Anthropology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

James W. Fernandez, Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986).

Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).

Tobias Hecht, After Life: An Ethnographic Novel (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

Michael Jackson, The Politics of Storytelling: Violence, Transgression and Intersubjectivity (Museum Tusculanum Press, March 1, 2002).

--The Palm at the End of the Mind ( Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).

Dorinne Kondo, “Dissolution and Reconstitution of Self: Implications for Anthropological Epistemology,” Cultural Anthropology 1 (1986): 74-88.

Adrie Kusserow,  “Ethnographic Poetry” in Arts-Based Research in Education, Cahnmann-Taylor and Siegesmund, eds. (Routledge 2008).

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Metaphors we live by. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Word for World is Forest” in Again, Dangerous Visions, ed. by Harlan Ellison (Doubleday, 1972).

--“Entretien avec Ursula K. Le Guin” with Helene Escudie, in Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (Mississippi, 2008).

Lila Abu‐Lughod, “Fieldwork of a Dutiful Daughter.” In S. Altorki and C. Fawzi El-Solh (Eds.), Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society(Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1988).

George F. Marcus (with Richard Cushman). "Ethnographies as texts." Annual Review of Anthropology 11, 1982, 25-69.

--“Where Have All The Tales of Fieldwork Gone?” Ethnos 71(1), 2006.

Mary Louise Pratt, “Fieldwork in Common Places,” in Writing Culture (California, 1986).

Paul Rabinow, Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, (Los Angelas: University of California Press, 1977).

Renato Rosaldo, “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage,” in Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989).

Jean E. Jackson, “‘I Am a Fieldnote’: Fieldnotes as a Symbol of Professional Identity,” in Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology edited by Roger Sanjek (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990): 3-44.

Stuart McLean,"'To Dream Profoundly': Irish Boglands and the Imagination of Matter," Irish Journal of Anthropology. special issue, Engaging Imagination: Anthropological Explorations in Creativity, 10 (2) 61-68, 2007.

Kirin Narayan, “Ethnography and Fiction: Where is the Border?” Anthropology and Humanism 24 (2) 2008: 134-147.

--Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Anand Pandian, Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).

David Shulman, Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Eleanor Smith Bowen [Bohannan, Laura]. Return to laughter: An anthropological novel. (Garden City, New York: The Natural History Library, Anchor Book Doubleday & Company, 1964).

Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects (Duke, 2007).

Paul Stoller, The Power of the Between: An Anthropological Odyssey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009).

-- Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999),

Marilyn Strathern.  "Out of context: The persuasive fictions of anthropology." Current Anthropology 28.3 (1987): 251–281.

--“The Ethnographic Effect I” and “The Ethnographic Effect II,” from Property, Substance and Effect: Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things. (The Athlone Press, 1999).

Michael Taussig, Law in a Lawless Land: Diary of a Limpieza in Colombia ( University of Chicago Press, 2005).

-- “The Language of Flowers,” in Walter Benjamin’s Grave (University of Chicago Press, 2006).