Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, also published by Duke University Press.Stuart McLean teaches anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human.

• Acknowledgments  viiPrologue / Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean  1Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing / Paper Boat Collective  111. The Ambivalent Archive / Angela Garcia  292. Writing with Care / Michael Jackson  453. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing / Michael Jackson  484. Walking and Writing / Anand Pandian  685. Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow  716. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity / Michael Jackson  917. Ta'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo  948. Writing through Intercessors / Stuart McLean  1169. Desire in Cinema / Anand Pandian  11910. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops / Stuart McLean  12611. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions / Tobias Hecht  13012. Ethnography and Fiction / Anand Pandian  14513. SEA / Stuart McLean  14814. Writing Otherwise / Lisa Stevenson  16815. Origami Conjecture for a BembÉ / Todd RamÓn Ochoa 17216. Ethnographic Excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd RamÓn Ochoa  18517. Conversations with a Hunter / Daniella Gandolfo 18918. On Writing and Surviving / Lisa Stevenson  20719. A Proper Message / Lisa Stevenson  20920. Fidelity and Invention / Angela Garcia  222Epilogue / Kathleen Stewart  225Bibliography  231Contributors   241Index  243

"In a ‘post-truth’ world, where facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, this publication is of timely importance. . . . It is a text that encourages the reader to embrace writing as a practice immanent to the world, rather than a detached reflection upon society and our place within it." - Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani (LSE Review of Books) “There is still much to learn about cultivating uncertainty, failure and collaboration in geographic writing and research, and this volume invites just this kind of casting off.” - Ursula Lang (Antipode) "This is an outstanding volume to use as provocation, to reflect on one’s own practice and history, as well as for teaching. I can see students becoming excited at the possibility of an anthropology that takes as its departure point the very hesitations and unknowns that we are schooled to suppress." - Paloma Gay y Blasco (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) "The volume challenges anthropological conventions on multiple fronts and provides both an energizing example and a refreshing reminder that powerful writing energizes our knowing and can bring anthropology out of its mostly self-imposed limits of speaking." - David Syring (Anthropology and Humanism) "The Paper Boat Collective . . . demonstrates that not only can ethnography survive, but by incorporating an aesthetic mode of uncertainty, vulnerability, and adventure, it is better equipped to connect with the violent storms and hopeful struggles of a complex and untidy world.… The sense of journey is palpable in the persistent exhortation to go beyond: beyond the tangible, beyond the human, beyond oneself, beyond the real." - Jason Danely (Anthropology Book Forum)

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, also published by Duke University Press.Stuart McLean teaches anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human.

• Acknowledgments  viiPrologue / Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean  1Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing / Paper Boat Collective  111. The Ambivalent Archive / Angela Garcia  292. Writing with Care / Michael Jackson  453. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing / Michael Jackson  484. Walking and Writing / Anand Pandian  685. Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow  716. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity / Michael Jackson  917. Ta'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo  948. Writing through Intercessors / Stuart McLean  1169. Desire in Cinema / Anand Pandian  11910. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops / Stuart McLean  12611. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions / Tobias Hecht  13012. Ethnography and Fiction / Anand Pandian  14513. SEA / Stuart McLean  14814. Writing Otherwise / Lisa Stevenson  16815. Origami Conjecture for a BembÉ / Todd RamÓn Ochoa 17216. Ethnographic Excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd RamÓn Ochoa  18517. Conversations with a Hunter / Daniella Gandolfo 18918. On Writing and Surviving / Lisa Stevenson  20719. A Proper Message / Lisa Stevenson  20920. Fidelity and Invention / Angela Garcia  222Epilogue / Kathleen Stewart  225Bibliography  231Contributors   241Index  243

"In a ‘post-truth’ world, where facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, this publication is of timely importance. . . . It is a text that encourages the reader to embrace writing as a practice immanent to the world, rather than a detached reflection upon society and our place within it." - Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani (LSE Review of Books) “There is still much to learn about cultivating uncertainty, failure and collaboration in geographic writing and research, and this volume invites just this kind of casting off.” - Ursula Lang (Antipode) "This is an outstanding volume to use as provocation, to reflect on one’s own practice and history, as well as for teaching. I can see students becoming excited at the possibility of an anthropology that takes as its departure point the very hesitations and unknowns that we are schooled to suppress." - Paloma Gay y Blasco (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) "The volume challenges anthropological conventions on multiple fronts and provides both an energizing example and a refreshing reminder that powerful writing energizes our knowing and can bring anthropology out of its mostly self-imposed limits of speaking." - David Syring (Anthropology and Humanism) "The Paper Boat Collective . . . demonstrates that not only can ethnography survive, but by incorporating an aesthetic mode of uncertainty, vulnerability, and adventure, it is better equipped to connect with the violent storms and hopeful struggles of a complex and untidy world.… The sense of journey is palpable in the persistent exhortation to go beyond: beyond the tangible, beyond the human, beyond oneself, beyond the real." - Jason Danely (Anthropology Book Forum)

Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, also published by Duke University Press.Stuart McLean teaches anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human.

• Acknowledgments  viiPrologue / Anand Pandian and Stuart McLean  1Introduction: Archipelagos, a Voyage in Writing / Paper Boat Collective  111. The Ambivalent Archive / Angela Garcia  292. Writing with Care / Michael Jackson  453. After the Fact: The Question of Fidelity in Ethnographic Writing / Michael Jackson  484. Walking and Writing / Anand Pandian  685. Anthropoetry / Adrie Kusserow  716. Poetry, Uncertainty, and Opacity / Michael Jackson  917. Ta'bir: Ethnography of the Imaginal / Stefania Pandolfo  948. Writing through Intercessors / Stuart McLean  1169. Desire in Cinema / Anand Pandian  11910. Flows and Interruptions, or, So Much for Full Stops / Stuart McLean  12611. Denial: A Visit in Four Ethnographic Fictions / Tobias Hecht  13012. Ethnography and Fiction / Anand Pandian  14513. SEA / Stuart McLean  14814. Writing Otherwise / Lisa Stevenson  16815. Origami Conjecture for a BembÉ / Todd RamÓn Ochoa 17216. Ethnographic Excess / Daniella Gandolfo and Todd RamÓn Ochoa  18517. Conversations with a Hunter / Daniella Gandolfo 18918. On Writing and Surviving / Lisa Stevenson  20719. A Proper Message / Lisa Stevenson  20920. Fidelity and Invention / Angela Garcia  222Epilogue / Kathleen Stewart  225Bibliography  231Contributors   241Index  243

"In a ‘post-truth’ world, where facts have become less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief, this publication is of timely importance. . . . It is a text that encourages the reader to embrace writing as a practice immanent to the world, rather than a detached reflection upon society and our place within it." - Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani (LSE Review of Books) “There is still much to learn about cultivating uncertainty, failure and collaboration in geographic writing and research, and this volume invites just this kind of casting off.” - Ursula Lang (Antipode) "This is an outstanding volume to use as provocation, to reflect on one’s own practice and history, as well as for teaching. I can see students becoming excited at the possibility of an anthropology that takes as its departure point the very hesitations and unknowns that we are schooled to suppress." - Paloma Gay y Blasco (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) "The volume challenges anthropological conventions on multiple fronts and provides both an energizing example and a refreshing reminder that powerful writing energizes our knowing and can bring anthropology out of its mostly self-imposed limits of speaking." - David Syring (Anthropology and Humanism) "The Paper Boat Collective . . . demonstrates that not only can ethnography survive, but by incorporating an aesthetic mode of uncertainty, vulnerability, and adventure, it is better equipped to connect with the violent storms and hopeful struggles of a complex and untidy world.… The sense of journey is palpable in the persistent exhortation to go beyond: beyond the tangible, beyond the human, beyond oneself, beyond the real." - Jason Danely (Anthropology Book Forum)