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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

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

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This post is published in conjunction with the American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, Canada. Check for other posts from the conference.#AAACASCABy Rebecca J. Lester, author of Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in AmericaIn 2017, America awoke to news of a

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