How to Write Things
Fiction, Anthropology and Foreignness in Berlin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3077552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francisco Martinez (0000-0003-2113-9987, Universidad Andres Bello, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnologia Europaea (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0425-4597 • E-ISSN: 1604-3030 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.16995/ee.9032 |
| OpenAlex | W4322755922 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
Why can the anthropologist be a writer but not an author? This essay reflects on the possibility of conveying anthropological knowledge through creative writing while reconsidering ethnographical authorship and its audience. The research material is a fiction written by myself to evoke a particular structure of feeling bound to a specific location, contemporary Berlin. The story is not told, however, from the perspective of an ethnographer who masters expert knowledge, but from the partial view of a protagonist who appears as a lost, hopeless, and vulnerable figure. This anthropological fiction invites us to reconsider the boundary between academic knowledge production and creative writing, rising along questions about evidence, representation and how our research could reach a general audience
Aesthetics · Art · Creative writing · Epistemology · Ethnography · Feeling · Fiction writing · Knowledge production · Literature · Reflexive pronoun · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Anthropological Writing
Shelter Blues
Hitchhiking
The Anthropologist as Writer
Peripheral Methodologies
Walter Benjamin's Grave
After the Fact
An Ethnographic Inventory
After the Fact
On the writing of ethnography
Young Adult Dystopias
Anthropology in the Public Arena
The Sorcerer's Burden
Alive in the Writing
Fictionalizing Anthropology
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Anthropology off the Shelf
How to Write Things
The Public Presence of Anthropology
Ethnography and Fiction
That's enough about ethnography
Out of the `Digger
The Management of Hunger
New York Stories
On Ethnographic Surrealism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |