Comments on: Micronesia in the house http://savageminds.org/2005/09/16/micronesia-in-the-house/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ozma http://savageminds.org/2005/09/16/micronesia-in-the-house/comment-page-1/#comment-1578 Ozma Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:48:33 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2005/09/16/micronesia-in-the-house/#comment-1578 Since I can never resist a good thrashing (egregious SM humor alert), I clicked on the link to that review -- rarely have I read a more childishly ungenerous, self-aggrandizing piece of criticism. Knowing nothing about either the author or the reviewer, nor about the Marshall Islands, I haven't got a dog in that fight -- but I think the editors of the journal would have done well to have bowed to the reviewer's avowed protestations and asked someone else to assess the book. Since I can never resist a good thrashing (egregious SM humor alert), I clicked on the link to that review — rarely have I read a more childishly ungenerous, self-aggrandizing piece of criticism. Knowing nothing about either the author or the reviewer, nor about the Marshall Islands, I haven’t got a dog in that fight — but I think the editors of the journal would have done well to have bowed to the reviewer’s avowed protestations and asked someone else to assess the book.

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