Episode 93: Interview with Anthropologist and Author Danilyn Rutherford

In episode 93 of Literary Prospects, we talk with author Danilyn Rutherford about her new book, Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World.

Danilyn is President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. An award-winning anthropologist, she has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of Chicago, and has authored several books. Her latest book, Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World, an academic memoir about life with her multiply disabled daughter, Millie, is out now. Danilyn lives in Santa Cruz, California.

In this interview, Danilyn talks about her experience raising Millie; why, as an anthropologist, she no longer thinks language is essential to human experience; the place for creativity and story in academic writing; and much more…