Comments on: Backup advisors http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Wed, 23 May 2012 09:11:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Backup advisors http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-1767 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Backup advisors Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:25:15 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=245#comment-1767 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] p research + digital collaboration != FLOSS » Tue 27 Sep 2005 Backup advisors Posted by Kerim under [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] p research + digital collaboration != FLOSS »

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]]> By: AnthroDiva http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-1681 AnthroDiva Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:13:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=245#comment-1681 You guys might like this: http://www.susanmazur.com/7144/6955.html You guys might like this:

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]]> By: Nancy http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-1657 Nancy Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:33:37 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=245#comment-1657 Kerim, I assume you mean this is for someone who is doing it full time? Wow, I will have to do mine part-time if I want to keep my job. Perhaps I will get my Ph.D before I die, then, for what it's worth. Kerim, I assume you mean this is for someone who is doing it full time? Wow, I will have to do mine part-time if I want to keep my job. Perhaps I will get my Ph.D before I die, then, for what it’s worth.

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]]> By: Kerim http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-1651 Kerim Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:47:53 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=245#comment-1651 I forget where I read/heard that figure, but I think of it this way: The quickest way through a program (unless you already are a native speaker in the language you will be doing research) is as follows: 3 years for course work 1 year to work on your proposal and write grants (or wait for them to come through) 1 year language study 1 year fieldwork 1 year writeup That's already 7 years. Now, many people I know are working part time, spend more time writing up, spend more time in the field, and/or spend more time waiting for research funds before leaving (often teaching part time while they are waiting). Not to mention people who basically drop out for a while, or who are asked to write a masters thesis before being allowed to continue, who have children while in graduate school, etc. It took my mom 20 years! But then she had a family somewhere in there... I forget where I read/heard that figure, but I think of it this way: The quickest way through a program (unless you already are a native speaker in the language you will be doing research) is as follows:

3 years for course work
1 year to work on your proposal and write grants (or wait for them to come through)
1 year language study
1 year fieldwork
1 year writeup

That’s already 7 years. Now, many people I know are working part time, spend more time writing up, spend more time in the field, and/or spend more time waiting for research funds before leaving (often teaching part time while they are waiting). Not to mention people who basically drop out for a while, or who are asked to write a masters thesis before being allowed to continue, who have children while in graduate school, etc.

It took my mom 20 years! But then she had a family somewhere in there…

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]]> By: oneman http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-1650 oneman Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:42:34 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=245#comment-1650 NINE YEARS?!?!?!?! Are you freakin' kidding me?! I'm going on 8 (measuring from start of MA) and I thought I was a freak -- and I'm getting all sorts of pressure from my department to get my ass in gear. And you're telling me the *average* is even longer than I've been at it? I don't know whether to feel relieved or pissed off that nobody told me this 8 years ago... NINE YEARS?!?!?!?! Are you freakin’ kidding me?! I’m going on 8 (measuring from start of MA) and I thought I was a freak — and I’m getting all sorts of pressure from my department to get my ass in gear. And you’re telling me the *average* is even longer than I’ve been at it? I don’t know whether to feel relieved or pissed off that nobody told me this 8 years ago…

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]]> By: Timothy Burke http://savageminds.org/2005/09/27/backup-advisors/comment-page-1/#comment-1648 Timothy Burke Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:22:16 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=245#comment-1648 The time to completion in anthropology is a separate issue in its own regard, but it urgently needs thinking about by departments of anthropology (unlikely to happen). Failing that, in specific, anyone contemplating a doctorate in anthropology needs first to understand this aspect of graduate study as distinct from the norm, and needs special intense reinforcement on your last point. An anthropology dissertation needs to be written with special intensity and speed and with far less hang-ups about completion: the normal pace of writing that tangles up doctoral students in some cognate disciplines elongates an already interminable course of study for anthropologists past the breaking point in some cases. The time to completion in anthropology is a separate issue in its own regard, but it urgently needs thinking about by departments of anthropology (unlikely to happen). Failing that, in specific, anyone contemplating a doctorate in anthropology needs first to understand this aspect of graduate study as distinct from the norm, and needs special intense reinforcement on your last point. An anthropology dissertation needs to be written with special intensity and speed and with far less hang-ups about completion: the normal pace of writing that tangles up doctoral students in some cognate disciplines elongates an already interminable course of study for anthropologists past the breaking point in some cases.

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