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Award-winning Anthropologist Rebecca Lester Shares Six Key Tips for Ethnographic Writing
Feb 18 2021
Anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book, Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America. As part of #AnthroDay 2021, we reached out to Lester to ask about her advice for aspiring ethnographers. How do you write a successful
Q&A with Anthropologist Rebecca Lester: What We Get Wrong about Eating Disorders
Nov 12 2020
This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit.UC Press author and anthropologist Rebecca Lester recently won the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for her book Famished: Eating Disorders and F
Strategies for Existential Survival: An excerpt from Rebecca J. Lester’s Famished
Nov 10 2019
Excerpted from Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. LesterI came dangerously close to dying from anorexia twice, once when I was eleven years old and again when I was eighteen. I was hospitalized both times for several months and spent years in outpatient t