Some of you might be excited to hear/know about the The Franz Boas Papers Project! Our inaugural volume 1 is out from Nebraska press. We're just getting started with this seven year SSHRC funded…Continue
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From its inception, from the 19th century efforts, from the modern founding works of Boas, Radcliffe-Brown, and Malinowski, anthropology strove to discover the human variety in the world, and to…Continue
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HelloThis might be of interest to you.Just to let you know of a short-term project that is intended to provide quick debate over the next month and then a possible virtual workshop. Its on another…Continue
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As an undergrad enthralled by these eccentrics who did this thing called ethnographic fieldwork, which usually sounded like one helluva an adventure, I thought that somebody should conduct an…Continue
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Women are playing a growing role in anthropology, as both students and professors. How is this affecting the field in terms of topics and analytic approaches? [JMcC]
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Thank you, Keith! Well, I've been understandably "excited" (intermittently) since high school days by the "lost cities" of the Maya. In the early '90s I chose to honeymoon in Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize, visiting five Classic Maya sites. I've read quite a few books about the ancient Maya -- all of which are quite interesting! Coe's "Breaking the Maya Code" fascinates not only in the decipherment per se, but equally in the unlikely confluence of disparte lives that has accomplished (and is still accomplishing) that decipherment. Suffice to mention as example that Mark Twain's newspaper editor in rough-and-ready mining-camp Nevada (from Twain's "Roughing It" days) was a very astute avocational Mayanist who contributed significantly!
Welcome, Larry. Mike Coe was once a colleague of mine. I have lots of stories about him. But tell us what excited you about that book.
Greetings, all! I'm a new member, a retired geologist/editor. Your group immediately brings to mind the superb book "Breaking the Maya Code", by Michael Coe, wherein the sociology of that long and continuing inquiry is beautifully explicated!
Just wanted to say "Welcome" to Daniel Lende and encourage him to post something here to stir up the group.
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