Literary Anthropology; Submission deadline: April 31st, 2017.
We are interested in receiving submissions for a book on Literary Anthropology. The discussion of this topic emanates from a discipline which is born in the postmodern period both out of science and narration (Lyotard). Social science is very much linked to literary strategies, which include the writing of notes, diaries and monographs. Anthropology, or social science, in general, is infused by literary aspects, because it is permeated by subjectivity and because the data is eventually released through the literary medium. This has been hotly debated by anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz (Works and Lives: The anthropologist as Author), George Marcus and Michael Fischer (Anthropology as a Cultural Critique), Johannes Fabian (Time and the Other) and Edward Said (Orientalism).
Your chapter should not read as formulaic. It should speak to your thoughts, concerns, emotions, encounters in the field, dilemmas you experienced, and tricks that you learned along the way of learning about the literary aspects of anthropology. Consider: What discursive aspects are most relevant for understanding anthropology?
We welcome submissions from researchers who are graduate students, academics or professionals. Please send your work to mayainmontreal@gmail.com or literaryanthropology@gmail.com. Include: (1) a 4500-word chapter; (2) your name and institutional affiliation; (3) the primary theme(s) your chapter aligns with; and, (4) up to 10 keywords. The submission deadline is April 31, 2017. If at this time you do not have a draft chapter for us to review, please email us a 200 to 300-word chapter proposal.
Upon successful evaluation of submissions through peer-review by experts in the field and the Amsterdam publisher: BRILL-Rodopi, we anticipate for the final results to be released in 2018. Thank you for considering this volume as an outlet for your work.
Disclaimer: I have initially released this call for book chapters under the heading of « Subjectivity in anthropological discourse » but found that the topic was too narrow. I am hence expanding it to the larger field of literary anthropology.
Maya Nazaruk, Université de Montréal, is a published author of a non-fiction ethnographic monograph and over 20 scholarly articles in social science reviews, which have appeared at Oxford, Helsinki, Florence, Paris and other venues.
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