Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

This blog post is about how to organize your arguments and develop an argument throughline (sometimes called a narrative arc) in your cultural anthropology monograph. In academic writing, scholars make arguments and work with concepts and themes. Arguments and unique concepts form the "currency" of intellectual exchange, and so it's worth taking the time to reflect on and uncover what arguments lie in your ethnography and anthropological theorizing. It's common for arguments