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Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
A group of people stand in a bright, dry valley measuring the ground and surveying the land around them.
essay / Field Notes

Raising Up African Paleoanthropologists

Linda Nordling
Generations of scholars from around the world have converged to study human evolution in East Africa. Now a new training program seeks to bring more African students into the field.
thirty thirty indigenous - The Indian government has evicted thousands of Baiga tribespeople to make way for a wildlife reserve.
essay / Counterpoint

Must Conservation and Indigenous Rights Clash?

Linda Nordling
As over 50 countries sign on to the “Thirty by Thirty” plan that would set land aside from human use, some scholars worry about its effects on marginalized communities.
essay / Identities

Who Gets to Study Whom?

Linda Nordling
As the field of anthropology struggles to shed its colonial past, the discipline has inadvertently put constraints on anthropologists of color who already face racism, bias, and discrimination.