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Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
An Imagined Monograph for Nongqawuse

A 19th-century prophetess reportedly bore a serious message from the ancestors to her Xhosa people amid British colonial assault. The…

Her Dirge

A poet-historian reflects on women’s labor carrying memories and the past. ✽ memory is a washerwoman who knows that when…

How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to…

Fighting for Reproductive Rights in Retirement

An anthropologist conducts research in an Arizona retirement community, where older women share hard-won insights about how limitations on sexual…

How Allocating Work Aided Our Evolutionary Success

Societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose. ✽ In his…

The Rise of Aunties in Pakistani Politics

Middle-class, conservative women in Pakistan have found a political voice as supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party—putting them at odds…

Comics as a Medium for Women’s Rights

Gogi is a comic strip character who boldly addresses issues of women’s rights in Pakistan and the broader Muslim world.…

Coastal Eden

A poet interrogates the garden of Eden origin story by reimagining it against the backdrop of East Africa’s coastal environment.…

Nameless Woman

Archives often render marginalized people’s histories invisible. In response to such erasure, a poet writes a letter to explore the…

Chatter That Matters

Three anthropologists sit to talk about the evolutionary purposes of gossip. What role does gossip play in human societies? In…