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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…

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…

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. ✽…

Salt and Paper in Bureaucratic Jerusalem

As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through…

An [un]Heroic Journey

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

Snapshots of Losing Jenna

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

What Vietnam’s Scarred Lands Reveal About Modern Warfare

Fifty years on, Vietnam is still reckoning with the long-term ecological toll of U.S. warfare—a grim warning as Israel and…

Why Do Swallows Fly to the Korean DMZ?

An anthropologist discovers diasporic flights—including her own—that begin at and return to the waters of the demilitarized zone between North…

When Calls for Vengeance Go Online

An anthropologist reckons with how digital media has changed youth gang culture dynamics—and what can be done to combat the…

A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and…