What role do passion and poetry play in our research-based quest to promote social justice? In this piece—a manifesto of sorts—I make a case for prioritizing both passion and poetry in our ethnographic writing. Such a commitment will allow our insights to be learned, our interlocutors’ and our own voices to be heard, and our policy recommendations to be heeded. But writing poetically from a place of passion is just the first step. User-friendly, public writing deserves a sociologically friendly platform. Hence, in the second part of this manifesto, I outline a series of steps that I recommend our discipline take in order to radically scale up our commitment to practice an engaged anthropology. Such tactics will allow us to more realistically promote our knowledge as we advocate for social justice.

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我为什么要写人类学？你为什么？

激情和诗歌在我们以研究为基础的促进社会正义的追求中发挥什么作用？在这篇文章（某种宣言）中，我提出了在我们的民族志写作中优先考虑激情和诗歌的理由。这样的承诺将使我们的见解得到学习，我们的对话者和我们自己的声音得到倾听，我们的政策建议得到重视。但从充满激情的地方进行诗意的写作只是第一步。用户友好的公共写作应该有一个社会学友好的平台。因此，在本宣言的第二部分中，我概述了我建议我们的学科采取的一系列步骤，以便从根本上扩大我们对实践参与人类学的承诺。这些策略将使我们在倡导社会正义时更现实地推广我们的知识。