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AA on ANTHRO-LJohn Hoopes (HOOPES@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU)Thu, 13 Oct 1994 22:47:01 -0500
the list. Hugh Jarvis and others have put an extraordinary amount of work into creating and maintaining this forum, and we should certainly respect their wishes. This also applies to the Tedlocks and AA. It was the membership who made them editors, and we should be thankful to them for taking on what is often a thankless task. I am one archaeologist who actually LIKED the last issue. I disagree with the interpretation that it contained no archaeology. Michael Dietler's article WAS archaeology, and very good archaeology at that. I have passed it on to a Central American graduate student who is also interested in the intersection of archaeology and nationalism, and he found it stimulating. He in turn passed it along to a colleague who is a historian. If there's anything AA should be doing, it's stimulating graduate students and and communicating across disciplines. Back to moderation of the list... If Hugh Jarvis wants the list to be apolitical, then it should be so. If his motives for keeping certain discussions off the list are themselves political, well perhaps that's none of our business. However, there are many individuals who participate in the list because of the perception that it's an open forum for the expression of ideas and opinions about anthropology (within the bounds of civil discourse). Dwight Read's comments cast doubt on the validity of that perception. It would be nice to know he's mistaken. John Hoopes Associate Professor Dept. of Anthropology University of Kansas
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