@article{d7527dcd368141c995619cb6f9f2f1bf,
title = "Why do I write anthropology? Why do you?: A manifesto for prioritizing passion and poetry as we scale up for social justice",
abstract = "What role do passion and poetry play in our research-based quest to promote social justice? In this piece—a manifesto of sorts—I make a case for prioritizing both passion and poetry in our ethnographic writing. Such a commitment will allow our insights to be learned, our interlocutors{\textquoteright} and our own voices to be heard, and our policy recommendations to be heeded. But writing poetically from a place of passion is just the first step. User-friendly, public writing deserves a sociologically friendly platform. Hence, in the second part of this manifesto, I outline a series of steps that I recommend our discipline take in order to radically scale up our commitment to practice an engaged anthropology. Such tactics will allow us to more realistically promote our knowledge as we advocate for social justice.",
keywords = "engaged anthropology, ethnographic writing, passion, poetry, public writing, social justice",
author = "Alma Gottlieb",
note = "Early on, I ceded the space for major programmatic ideas to CACD's leadership and constituency. What I offered was experience in how to shape those ideas into a fundable proposal. Our writing process typically begins with Cape Verdean colleagues brainstorming ideas, me taking notes, us collaboratively producing outlines, my Cape Verdean colleagues producing rough drafts, and me polishing the prose. I draw on my anthropological training in asking questions, listening to responses, and identifying core values, then harness those strategies to the proposal‐writing process. Thus, in requesting funds for basic relief projects during the COVID pandemic, our proposals prioritized Cape Verdean cultural values. Food‐distribution grants included traditional island ingredients that Cape Verdeans judge edible; a mask giveaway grant from the Rhode Island Department of Health funded a Cape Verdean seamstress to hand‐sew 800 masks featuring the Cape Verdean flag (Gottlieb & Soares, Forthcoming ).",
year = "2023",
month = dec,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1111/amet.13247",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "51",
pages = "96--103",
journal = "American Ethnologist",
issn = "0094-0496",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}