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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
Sounding the Border

An anthropologist-poet listens to echoes of laughter and other sounds of crossings in Kashmir. In the house once occupied by…

The Sacred Heartbeat at Houston Pride

An anthropologist participates in the Houston Pride Parade, offering dance, music, and prayer with others to counter intensifying oppression faced…

Dreamscapes of Refusal: A Chorus

SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to a chorus of dreams in her field recordings from Kashmir. ✽ “Dreaming has a…

The Cost of Cutting Anthropology Out of U.S. National Parks

A former National Park Service anthropologist reflects on the vital role of cultural anthropology to the agency’s mission—and what might…

Listening to Murmurs

Through her field recordings, SAPIENS poet-in-residence for 2025 listens to murmurings of clay, debris, and time in Kashmir’s Tsaar. ✽…

An [un]Heroic Journey

A Tanzanian poet unseats the illusionist tale of the mission museum of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. ✽…

Forest as Kin and Pantry in the Himalayas

In the Sikkim and Kalimpong Himalayas in Northeast India, supply chains are often interrupted by changing monsoon systems that damage…

How Cultural Knowledge Sustained Desert Farms in the Ancient Andes

An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current…

Earworm

A poet-anthropologist listens to an accidental field recording from Kashmir: What might be dismissed as noise becomes a way to…

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…