Re: Internet use for Anth/Arch (a suggestion)
Gil Hardwick (gil@landmark.iinet.net.au)
Tue, 09 May 1995 01:24:35 GMT
In article <199505071504.IAA09341@jupiter.calstatela.edu>, Keith Dever (kdever@calstatela.edu) writes:
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>I can either assemble some useful comments or let the members of the group be
>the judge. I prefer the latter as it is more democratic.
>NOTE: If you disagree that the "Net" can be useful, please respond.
Just don't get too carried away with the idea far too popular around
here, Keith, that the Internet can ever substitute for a thorough
review of the literature, or for that matter a decent bout with The
Other out in the field.
Frankly, it is probably better that anthropologists remain computer
illiterate. Or at least keep the dread things out at the margins of
their anthropological consciousness . . .
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