Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography

CHAIR: EMMETT, Ayala (U Rochester)
DISCUSSANT: SIMONELLI, Jeanne (Wake Forest U)

ABSTRACT: Anthropologists come home from the field with amazing stories brimming with passion, excitement, pathos, humor, and drama. Academic publication requirements,
however, often flatten out the stories, strip the ethnography of the excitement, and fail to convey the rich texture of everyday life. The papers in this session invite you to share in
an infusion of anthropology with life, half as exciting as fieldwork. Alongside academic ethnography and its requirements there are other ways to write about justice, ethics and
the practice of anthropology in genres that are informed by our fieldwork and anchored in ethnographic concerns. The papers in this session, which include SHA Fiction Award
winners, open up an exhilarating and stirring humanistic anthropology to a wider audience

Session Participants:
EMMETT, Ayala (Rochester)
ANGROSINO, Michael V. (U S Florida)
TRACHTENBERG, Barbara (Boston University)
CHIERICI, Rose-Marie (SUNY-Geneseo)
CHIN, Nancy (U Rochester)

Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2009.