Re: HUMMEL AND MOFERN THEORY

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On Sat, 16 Apr 1994, MARY IRVING wrote:

> The thing that really bothers me is that so many people on this
> list seem to feel the need to go back to square 1 and develop
> anthropological theory from scratch. This really implies that
> anthropologists have to stop what they are doing to wait for the
> new and, supposedly much better theory, to be developed. Do we

I always thought reinventing anthropology from scratch was what you
did as a graduate student. Which may be why
so few dissertations ever get published and why so many Ph.D.s are
never heard from again.

Matthew Hill- (MHILL@WATARTS.UWATERLOO.CA)

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