Publishing Archaeology

Showing posts with label Edited volumes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edited volumes. Show all posts
Sunday, November 10, 2013

Interaction among scholars and intellectual progress

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When scholars working on closely related topics get together, it is possible to make real progress and greatly advance understanding of the ...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Swords, chainsaws, and edited volumes

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I'm not the only one with a dim view of the value of edited volumes. As I've expressed previously (" Why are so many edited vol...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

"The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies"

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Yesterday I shipped off the manuscript for an edited volume, The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, to Cambridge University Press...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

Sloppy Editing of Edited Volumes

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I’m writing this on the airplane on the way to the SAA meetings in Vancouver . I have discussed some of the problems with edited volumes in...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Buried in an Edited Volume

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Back when I was a graduate student I asked David Freidel for a reprint of a chapter from an edited book. He sent it to me, with a brief note...
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Sunday, August 26, 2007

Why are so many edited volumes worthless?

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Anyone who follows publishing in archaeology (and probably in academia in general) knows that there has been a great increase in the number ...
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I am an archaeologist who has excavated Aztec provincial houses in Mexico to reconstruct the political economy of ancient life. I now work primarily on comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to ancient cities. Does research on early cities have anything to teach us about fundamental urban processes such as resilience, adaptation, and change? I'd like to know. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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