Pandian, A. & McLean, S. (2017). Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. Duke University Press
Duke University Press This volume consists of a series of essays that span various experimental writing techniques in anthropology and the genre of ethnographies from poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. The text is dedicated to the ‘means of conveyance’ and the act and processes of writing itself. The authors explore themes of reflection, prose and poetry, distance, representation, subjectivity, and literary techniques. In their courageous and wide-ranging accounts they also detail numerous ethnographic sites. And importantly, they engage with broader methodological debates in the discipline and discuss the genre of ethnography and the role of anthropology.
Taussig, M. Postcards for Mia. MIT Press. 2023.
MIT Press Postcards for Mia is Taussig’s playful collection of drawings, stories, and letters sent to his granddaughter from his travels. This text documents Taussig’s many vibrant accounts and observations as well as his explorations of themes of magic and myth in particular. It is a testament to Taussig’s creative eye and prose. This work invites a kind of movement between what Taussig locates as the child and adult brain, drawing in one’s imagination and wonder. .
Modan, G. (2016). Writing the Relationship: Ethnographer-Informant Interactions in the New Media Era. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 26(1), 98–107.
AnthroSource This article discusses channels of communication in ethnographic practice, in particular the impact of new media forms on correspondence patterns between researchers and informants. In the author’s words: “the effect of new communications media on relationships between ethnographers and members of the communities they study.”
figure 1 in article “Gugganig’s office table.”
