Literary Ethnography

The view from the window of my apartment in Amsterdam It is amazing how a a change of place can rev up the creative juices.  I am hunkering down in Amsterdam for the summer.  I will be working in the archives of the International Institute for Social History for my project on communist mass women’s organizations and their relations with progressive women’s movements in Africa. I have been doing “salvage ethnographic” interviews in Bulgaria for 2 years, and now I am trying to track down the names of key women in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia.  I have a lot of research to do.  I have a lot of writing to do.  This is a challenging project because it is so much more historical than any other book I have written.  But I am so excited about this research.  There are wonderful stories to be told.  I revel in every moment that I will spend discovering them. 

The view from the window of my apartment in Amsterdam

It is amazing how a a change of place can rev up the creative juices.  I am hunkering down in Amsterdam for the summer.  I will be working in the archives of the International Institute for Social History for my project on communist mass women’s organizations and their relations with progressive women’s movements in Africa. I have been doing “salvage ethnographic” interviews in Bulgaria for 2 years, and now I am trying to track down the names of key women in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia. 

I have a lot of research to do.  I have a lot of writing to do.  This is a challenging project because it is so much more historical than any other book I have written.  But I am so excited about this research.  There are wonderful stories to be told.  I revel in every moment that I will spend discovering them. 

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