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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
The Politics of Mourning After Itaewon

After the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, South Korea faced a failure of prevention—and mourning. A group of anthropologists explores…

When Women Say “Ta-Ta” to Ta-Tas

An anthropologist fighting cancer navigates the social pressure to get breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. ✽ “I’ve decided to go…

The Power of Mistrust

A group of anthropologists working in Indonesia explores how mistrust among on-demand drivers—toward companies and one another—can be a form…

When People—and Files—Talk Back to Bureaucracy

Two ethnographic filmmakers enter the government maze in India, documenting how citizens make claims on the state while imagining alternate…

What’s Behind a Michelin Star?

As judges scout new restaurants to evaluate in U.S. cities, an anthropologist investigates the elite, Eurocentric history of the Michelin…

Snapshots of Losing Jenna

An anthropologist offers a lens on how losses from war dramatically alter a family—and a society. ✽ BEFORE I FORMALLY…

Shading U.S. Empire in Puerto Rico’s Ballroom Scene

A linguistic anthropologist explores the queer Ballroom scene in San Juan—and how performers are incorporating critiques of colonialism into the…

Reclaiming Collective Life in a Fractured U.S.

After Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win, an anthropologist set out across the U.S. to understand the nation’s deepening divides.…

South Africa’s Road Out of Colonialism

A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may…

Ceasefire From the Earth and Sky

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the border of North and South Korea is the site of the longest ceasefire in…