tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971081717687612908.post8049617089527984362..comments2024-03-18T05:08:29.201-07:00Comments on Publishing Archaeology: "Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory"Michael E. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03942595266312225661noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971081717687612908.post-10828618184082056932012-02-12T12:02:48.494-07:002012-02-12T12:02:48.494-07:00Thanks Anonymous for the Boellstorff quote. Howeve...Thanks Anonymous for the Boellstorff quote. However, there's a major scholarly difference between "most genres of online publications" and an open peer-review journal (considering that very few people read articles from printed subscription-only journal issues these days). Thanks Michael Smith for reviewing the journal.Giovanninoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971081717687612908.post-1367977611552341472011-12-20T20:58:46.833-07:002011-12-20T20:58:46.833-07:00"The lack of review and comment moderation as..."The lack of review and comment moderation associated with most genres of online publication can lead to the amplification of misunderstandings" (Boellstorff 2011:542)<br /><br />Boellstorff, Tom<br />2011 From the Editor: Three Comments on Anthropology and Science. American Anthropologist 113(December):541–544.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971081717687612908.post-30747128309376566842011-12-16T15:49:40.363-07:002011-12-16T15:49:40.363-07:00David-
I don’t think I am the one most guilty her...David-<br /><br />I don’t think I am the one most guilty here of describing a text inaccurately (which seems to be what you accuse me of). Please compare my text with your comments. I don’t describe your article at all. I don’t claim to “pronounce to the world what the contents of that essay are” and I don’t say anything at all about “what’s wrong with it.” Perhaps it’s a great paper, perhaps it’s terrible; I haven’t read it yet, so I would not presume to make a judgment.<br /><br />I apologize if my off-the-cuff comment about being more interested in taxation than in divine kingship somehow offended you. I think your paper is probably about the latter topic, given its title:<br /><br />“The divine kingship of the Shilluk: On violence, utopia, and the human condition, or, elements for an archaeology of sovereignty.”<br /><br />The word “tax” does appear in the paper three times, and the term “divine” 73 times (but the term “archaeology” is absent from the paper after the title).<br /><br />If I were to “pronounce to the world” about the contents or quality of your paper, I would be sure to read the piece first. But I did not intend to describe or critique your paper, and I did not do so. I was merely pointing out the existence of a new journal to the readers of my blog.Michael E. Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03942595266312225661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971081717687612908.post-68181998078845846222011-12-15T22:00:06.915-07:002011-12-15T22:00:06.915-07:00Shilluk kings were utterly unsuccessful in collect...Shilluk kings were utterly unsuccessful in collecting taxes. If you'd read the essay in question you'd have realized that this, and the reasons for it, were one of the big points of the piece. If you're not even capable of being empirical and evidence-based enough to read an essay before presuming to pronounce to the world what the contents of that essay are, what's in it and what's not, and therefore what's wrong with it, then I have no idea why you go around claiming to be some kind of advocate of "science."David Graeberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762983189404521758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971081717687612908.post-29488185149102353162011-12-15T11:53:52.875-07:002011-12-15T11:53:52.875-07:00Thanks for pointing this one out. To me it seems m...Thanks for pointing this one out. To me it seems more like 'classical anthropology' of the kind practiced by people like Evans-Pritchard. This is a rich tradition of research and it deserves to be developed further.Marcusnoreply@blogger.com