/2006/01/11/amnh-publications-now-open-access/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 /2006/01/11/amnh-publications-now-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-3108 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:15:45 +0000 /?p=363#comment-3108 […] I love three authors — all of whom were trained as anthropologists, and at least one of them was a practising anthropologist: MN Srinivas (Remembered village), Ram Guha (Anthropologist among marxists) and Amitav Ghosh (Dancing in Cambodia, and In an Antique land). So, based on this statistics I came to the conclusion that anthropologists are great prose writers (till somebody disabused me of that notion). That reminds me of a story from Ram Guha about an economist whose generalisations were made on much smaller statistics Anyway, what do anthropolgists think about their writing? Here is an essay from Savage Minds on good anthropological writing. While we are at it, Savage Minds also tells us about  the new open access initiative of  American Museum of Natural History. […]

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