A collection of essays by 14 anthropologists who cast their imaginations self-consciously in a search for less conventional forms of understanding and expression in their field, showing that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said as effectively in any other way.

In Anthropological Poetics, 14 distinguished anthropologists cast their imaginations self-consciously in a search for less conventional forms of understanding and expression. These essays provide an eloquent demonstration that there is more than one way to say anthropology and that some things said poetically about anthropological experience can't be said with equal effectiveness any other way.