ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book talks about the composition of anthropological texts. It examines the concrete arrangement of ethnographical data and analytical reflections as textual accounts written by anthropologists for a wider audience but mainly for other anthropologists. The book explores creativity and transformations – from experience to texts of different kinds. It offers a new way of thinking about writing, and writing about writing, which represents both a pedagogic guide and a critical examination of the creative process. The book shows a number of contributors, both established and reputed, and those newer to their vocation, have been invited – requested – to reflect on and to lay bare the exact process by which word comes to follow word in a particular anthropological text that they have written.
