Ten Things Anthropologists Can Learn from Creative Writing

In his essay “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov,” Walter Benjamin (1968) urges us to tell stories that are charged, inexhaustibly, with mystery and possibility. How we tell our stories, and how those stories release insight, matters. As anthropologists, when we render social worlds, we often pivot between ethnographic scenes and various … Continue reading Ten Things Anthropologists Can Learn from Creative Writing