A Collection of Creative Anthropologies

A Collection of Creative Anthropologies brings together a series of creative work of anthropologists who share the art of writing that arises from 'ordinary' engagement and reveals its potential for the reimagining of anthropological futures and alternative worlds. Oscillating between loss, love, and the many spaces in-between, the creative pieces engage deeply, all in their own unique ways, with contemporary disquiets about racism, displacement, ruin, and inequality and the soothing strengths of myth, hope and wonder. It showcases the state-of-the-art and remarkable diversity of creative work currently being done by anthropologists-expressions of 'ordinary art' that are often left unnoticed. This centring of creativity at the heart of anthropology subtly conveys how the complex ethical and moral issues around fieldwork and anthropological theorising can be reflected on through writing otherwise, in creative spaces like this book. As such, A Collection of Creative Anthropologies fits the current call for radical revisions of the academic canon in anthropology, and the socials sciences and the humanities in general.