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  • Liz Marks: I’m set to finish in 5 years. To do this, I juggled completing my qualifying requirements while writing grants...
  • Adam: I think there is real benefit both to the 3 years of coursework that accompanies four-field anthropological training and...
  • Rex: Ditto. I’d recommend “Ethnocentrism of Disciplines and the Fish-Scale Model of Omniscience” by Donald...
  • Rex: It’s an interesting question. the UK and Australia follow the traditional British model, where the Ph.D. is given...
  • Rex: I’ve always liked the Culture novels, but I’ve never been able to love them — they are often overwritten...
  • Rex: /bookmark
  • Adam Fish: Thank you for the helpful commentary on this post. The post was a preliminary provocation for the solving of a...
  • John McCreery: Adam, you have just done something very interesting, introduced an idea and illustrated it in the same essay. As...
  • Doug Rocks-Macqueen: I wrote about the raw data on time to complete a PhD for anth a little while ago-...
  • michellespidermonkey: In my experience, my graduate work required a lot more repetitive coursework than I really needed. When I...

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