An interesting polemic on the growth of social inequality has developed in the past couple of weeks between Davids Graeber and Wengrow on the one hand, and Peter Turchin on the other. Graeber and Wengrow critique what they claim is the standard Rousseauian account of the evolution of inequality, from a state of primeval communism…
Shortly after the initial publication of Plan S, Tim Vines proposed a Plan T, which addressed some of the problems he saw with Plan S. Plan T seems to focus on identifying the “real cost” to the publisher, which Vines argues is a function of acceptance rate. According to Plan T, a submission fee, or…
It was almost 30 years ago, in the final few days of my undergrad. I was walking into the department office for some last minute paperwork. Vince was walking out. He said he was glad he bumped into me. Vince was a bit older than the rest of us. He was already married and had…
This week, I blogged about the Fifth International Directory of Anthropologists, published in 1975. Of course, I couldn’t resist looking at what Finnish content might be in there. The Directory lists 13 anthropologists in Finland in 1975, down from 18 in the first edition in 1938. Seven are listed in Helsinki and three in Turku,…
Before there was the internet and search engines, there was the International Directory of Anthropologists. It was published irregularly starting in 1938. The first one was put together by AV Kidder and revised in 1940. After the war, in an effort to rebuild links between Anthropological traditions and research communities, Herskovits produced a version in…
