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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
Five Questions for Anand Pandian

In this live discussion, anthropologist Anand Pandian shares insights from his timely new book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of…

Surveillance and Suspicion From the Margins

A Venezuelan anthropologist reflects on distrust he felt from residents of informal settlements in Santiago, Chile—and how his experiences track…

The Day I Heard My Mother’s Accent

In a personal essay, an anthropologist reflects on her family’s dual Syrian and French heritage. ✽ Throughout my early childhood,…

The Many Lives of a Face Mask

An anthropologist explores how the COVID-19–era surgical face mask went from a health precaution to a fashion choice among women…

How Heavy Metal Fuels Indigenous Revival in Patagonia

An anthropologist plunges into the world of Patagonian heavy metal music in Argentina to explore how the genre relates to…

Tallahassee Ghazal

Using an ancient Arabic poetic form, a poet-archaeologist from Florida cycles through feelings of entrapment growing up queer in the…

Emic/Etic

A poet-anthropologist offers an “anti-glossary” to contest ways of knowing in social science that objectify people(s) into categories. “Emic/Etic” is…

Five Reasons Why Trump Won Again

In an effort to address toxic polarization in the U.S., an anthropologist of the “Trumpiverse” explains MAGA supporters’ thinking in…

Finding Our Way Forward—by Remembering

In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today?…

Griko’s Poetic Whisper

In two poems, an anthropologist speaks to the timelessness and constant change of the minority language Griko in the Italian…