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(CorrespondencePlea for Contributions toTozzer Library

For over half a century Ihe Tozzer Library ofthe Peabody Museum of Archaeology andElhnology has provided a unique service to Iheanthropological profession in indexing theperiodicals and collections of essays acquiredby the Library. The results of this indexing arepublished in the Catalogue of the PeabodyMuseum which now numbers over seventyvolumes. The Fourth Supplement to IheCatalogue, including over 100,000 entries, willbe published next year

Just at the time when plans are under way tomake the indexing of anthropologicalperiodicals more accessible lo the an-thropological profession through the publica-tion of a bimonthly index to anthropologicalperiodicals, the very existence of the indexingsystem is threatened Due to increasing costsfor the maintenance of the new Library buildingcompleted in 1974, and Ihe rapid inflation oflibrary costs, Peabody Museum can no longersupport all of the functions of the Library. The

anthropologynewsletter

Published monthly except July and Augustby the American Anthropological Associa-tion Distributed to members of the Asso-ciation with membership, available to non-members at $750 per year. Single copy.S100

Edward J Lehman, Editor

Christina L Malec, Assistant to the Editor

Contributing EditorsCynthia Irwin-Williams (E New Mexico)

Society for American ArchaeologyMichael D Olien (Georgia)

Latin American Anthropology Group

Section Editors: Louis Cimino, Public Af-fairs Report and Legislative Calendar. DonZies, Grants and Support, Diane Marshall,Placement Service

Elsa Louise Vorwerk, Production Editor

Susan Griffin, Circulation Manager

Lelters, news stories, reports and all othermaterial submitted for publication mustconsist of an original and two copies andbe typed double-spaced Deadline forreceipt is the 1st of Ihe month precedingcover dale

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Copyright 1978Amerl an An hro ologhal Association

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This section is primarily for the use ofAAA members, although contributionsfrom others may be printed if they areconsidered of value. Correspondentsare urged to limit length; the Editorreserves the right to select and to editletters. All letters must be clearlymarked for Anthropology NewsletterCorrespondence, be typed double-spaced, not exceed 500 words inlength, and consist of an original and(wo copies. Letters published reflectthe views of the correspondents, theirpublication does not signify endorse-ment by the Anthropology Newsletteror the American AnthropologicalAssociation.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard Univer-sity is willing to contribute to the support of onlythose library functions which are of most directbenefit to the Harvard community Indexing isnot one of these functions from the viewpoint ofthe Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

If the indexing of anthropological periodicalsand collections of essays is to continue, newsources of funding must be found before thebeginning of the new fiscal year One possiblesource of additional funds to support the index-Ing system Is from those anthropologists whohave used the indexing system for their researchand who would benefit from having the indexingsystem continued in the future. Therefore, weare asking anthropologists who are interested inhaving the Tozzer Library indexing system con-tinued to make a financial contribution to thesupport of Ihe indexing system. You may make asingle contribution or you may make an annualpledge payable July I of each year Please makeyour check out to Tozzer Library and mail it toNancy J Schmidt, Tozzer Library. 21 Divinity Av,Cambridge. MA 02138.

Thank you for your support in helping TozzerLibrary continue this valuable service to the an-thropological profession

C C Lamberg-KarlovskyDirector of Peabody Museum

Nancy J SchmidtLibrarian of Tozzer Library

Advice to Advisors

Several days ago, a colleague showed meJames G Chadney's letter in the January 1978Anthropology Newsletter which came out while Iwas In Turkey That Peop'es of the Earth publica-tion Chadney wriles of is hardly "new"Although I can no longer find my cor-respondence in Ihe matter, what I recall is asfollows. Aboul len or I welve years ago, I receiveda reguesl from an English publisher, unknown tome, asking if I would advise on Ihe content of theprehistory section in a new publication, of whichIhe late E E Evans-Prllchard was lobe the edllor.The names of no other contributors or adviserswere revealed. My answer was. In effecl, lhat Iwould need to see some manuscrlpl before I ad'vised

Tolal silence followed, until about five years

later, when I received (from a member of thefaculty at Central Michigan Universily, whosename I can no longer recall), a pholocopy of ablurb advertising Peoples of the World. The Cen-tral Michigan colleague was obviously as af-fronted by Ihe blurb's contents as Chadney nowis and as I certainly was on receiving thephotocopy. My recollection is lhal the blurbcame from a company somewhere in Connec-ticut and that the word "Grolier" was part of thename of the company. I wrote a properly hoi lei-ter to the company demanding the removal ofmy name from the whole thing, only to be told inresponse that they were simply the agenl for IheEnglish publisher and I must address myself tothe latter I did, and again tolal silence. I leftsoon for a year in the field, the whole cor-respondence seems to have been "housecleaned' while I was away, and the matter com-pletely slipped my mind.

I m rather doubtful that anything can be donein the matter after this long time, beyond whatChadney does in bringing the whole matter upfor public scrutiny, and I thank him warmly fordoing so. To all younger colleagues, this ad-vice—don't consider becoming an adviserunless you're advised of whom you'll be advis-ing!

Robert J Bra id woodChicago

Horror Stories of Peer Review

The horror stories accumulating in the pagesof the Anthropology Newsletter on the topic ofpeer group review, and the selection of papersfor the Annual Meeting, prompt the followingsuggestions:

(1) Abolish peer group review;(2) Restrict papers to Fellows, or those others

whom Fellows may designate in abdication oftheir own prerogative,

(3) Accept papers in order of complete sub-mission, chronologically, until the designatedmanageable number is achieved;

(4) As now. compile preliminary programs onthe basis of summaries of proposed papers;

(5) Restrict the final program to completedmanuscripts conforming to the slyle specifica-tions of the American Anthropologist and readyfor pholocopying and dislnbulion;

(6) Find methods for enforcing the courtesyprocedures limiting papers read to Ihe numberof words comporting with a time requirement;

(7) Instilute procedures for choosing studentpapers from regional meetings which can beread at the Annual Meeling.

Donald Edward CunyNew Yo I

Threefold Response

Three commenis in the February 1978 An-thropology Ne wsfeMer have prompted me to pickup my pen: Kaiona's discussion of expanding|obs. Vreelands profile of an anlhropologlsl «t

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work and Bogglns' discussion of the AID. Thesecomments are highly interrelaled.

I feel qualified to share my thoughts with mycolleagues because my experience includes 12years in governmenl research, 4 years as asocial scientist in the business world and 12years as a full-time academic. While engaged inthe various research positions, I also taughtpart-time.

In Ihe SUNY syslem of colleges and univer-sities where I am now located, it is said that wesuffer because there is no "old boy" (persons)network of SUNY graduates in the statelegislature and state administration. I believethat is the case.

In the federal government in Washington,which I once knew intimately, I believe thai isalso the case. The "old boy" (persons) networkof anthropologists does exist and function, but itis very small compared to the economists' orlawyers' networks.

The AID problem is an old one. In the 1960s abook called Transforming TraditionalAgriculture by Theodore W Schultz (Yale Univer-sity Press, 1964) was read and quoted by thoseinvolved in the developing world. Schultz, aneconomist, wrote that the problems faced by theemerging peoples and nations were as much an-thropological as economic. He called for an-thropologists to work with economists andagricultural scientists on these tremendouslycomplex problems. Yel, in the middle 1960s, AIDappointed an experimental psychologist to headup an important research office. The experimen-tal psychologist left thai position and wasreplaced by his friend, a clinical psychologist.Neither man had had any experience in overseasresearch, cultural or social change problems, orin dealing with people of another culture.

About the same time, I applied for a positionwith AID and was granted an interview with oneof the top administrators in his very large, poshand elegantly appointed office. His deputy wasalso present. I thought that the interview wentvery well. As I left the room with the deputy, hetold me that the job was mine and that I was tocall a week later to finalize the necessary paper-work. | did so but the deputy denied that I hadbeen offered the job. Strange? I had had ex-perience as an applied anthropologist and as abureaucrat.

In the past year. I have had an Inquiry from AIDthat described short-term and long-term con-sultancies. I responded that I was interested butknew in my heart that nothing would come of it.

The profile by Hal Vreeland, whom I haveknown for many years, carries a message that Ibelieve in: the anthropologist who seeks employ-ment outside academia must be an exceedinglywell-trained social scientist. The problems andprojects appropriate to governmenl agenciesand business concerns require more than the an-Ihropological theory and methodologies thaihave been applied lo small-scale societies. Theanthropologisl's expertise with qualitative dataneeds to be complemenled with the feel andknow-how of sociologists, demographers,statisllclans. economists and, yes, socialhlslonans. Oflen we prelend lhal Ihe team ap-proach brings Ihese diverse talents logether lofocus on Ihe problem. Bui successful learnresearch Is exceedingly difficult lo achieve.

Often times, Ihe discipline and/or biases of theteam leader have priority. I would suggest thaitraining of Ihe anlhropologisl Incorporate suchcomplementary bodies of knowledge and skills.In my course on research methods for an-Ihropology majors, I make every attempt to con-vey the importance of becoming I hat excellentsocial scientist as part of becoming that ex-cellent anthropologist.

We anlhropologists do spend too much timetalking to ourselves. In the past, I have workedwith psychologists who felt superior to an-thropologists even if the anthropologists haddegrees in psychology as well as PhDs in an-thropology. Departments of anlhropology, atleast some I hat I have known, are not comfort-able with anthropologists who havedemonstrated competency and achievement inother disciplines. And we are the professionalswho teach about ethnocentrism. So we shouldnot be surprised to find that agencies andbusinesses managed by economists andbureaucrats prefer to employ economists andbureaucrats.

One last comment about the federal govern-ment as an employer of anthropologists. I haveread in a significant number of articles that theUS Civil Service as an open, merit-based person-nel agency was effectively destroyed during theNixon years. The destruction was directed at themiddle and upper levels of the governmentalstructure where persons with graduate universi-ty training would best fit. Many of these posi-tions were filled by political appointees. Isuspect that if such positions are presently be-ing filled, these are political appointments aswell.

Milton JacobsSUNY C New Paltz

AE Policy Queried

The breath-taking response to my letter byAmerican Ethnologist editor Fox needs noelaboration from me. I prefer to let it stand in itsintegrity as a worthy summation of anastonishing publishing experience.

In the meantime, to return to the subject of myoriginal letler, would it be at all possible tohave—somehow, somewhere—an answer to mysimple question: is it the policy of the AmericanEthnologist not to give authors a look at theediting of their text before that editing is ir-retrievably commitled to the galleys? Do I reallyneed to explain Ihe professional and scholarlyimplications of this procedure? And how manyletters does one normally have to write to havean answer to such a queslion?

Igor KopytoffPennsylvania

The Editor Responds

The policy of Ihe American Ethnologist Is toInform aulhors of edllorlal changes In theirmanuscripts when these changes are majorones that Involve content or technical wording.The changes made In Kopytoff's manuscnpl.although exlenslve, were grammatical andstylisllc only and, therefore, did nol require suchconsullallon, In my opinion.

Richard Q FoxEditor, American Ethnologist

Meeting Application Deadlines

As a professional seeking a job, I am becom-ing increasingly upset by the lack of profes-sionalism displayed in the placemenl notices Inthe Anthropology Newsletter. A particularly an-noying point is application deadlines which areexpired before I receive the newsletter! In theMarch newsletter, I counted Iwo deadlineswhich had expired before I even received ihenewslelter (March 20); seven deadlines withinIwo weeks of receipt date; and four within amonth of it. This is oul of a tolal of 16 adver-lisements giving such a deadline. February'snewsJelier was even worse. Jl had seven jobopenings with deadlines before February 15(twowith December 15, and one with January 31!);and another six before March 17; out of a total of17 job advertisements with deadlines. II isunethical to require a deadline before the pro-bable receipt date, if not illegal. It is well knownthat the AAA newsletter for each month isreceived by the middle or later part of Ihe month.Why isn't some attempt made to allow for thisdelay? Even a deadline two weeks after the prob-able receipt date is difficult to meet, if letters ofreference are requested. This, of course, ignoresthe advertisements which do not have the goodgrace to provide a deadline. Certainly, the AAAnewsletter could refuse to run an advertisementwhich the Placement Service editor clearly mustknow will appear after the deadline has expired,and requesl other job opening advertisements toindicate a reasonable deadline.

Thank you for your time and trouble.David B Hull,

Richard Goldberg,Louis J TartagliaCSU Northridge

The Placement ServiceDirector Responds

While the letter from Hull, Goldberg and Tar-taglia raises the legitimate issue of coordinatingposition-open listings so lhat they appear in ad-vance of deadline dates, the problems are not assevere, nor the issue as easily resolved, as theletter suggests. Excepting the December 15 andJanuary 31 deadlines in the February issue,there were only three positions in the Februaryand March issues with deadlines prior to the endof the month and not listed in previous issues:one had a deadline of March 15 for a positionbeginning April; the olher two had deadlines ofMarch 15 and March 24.

Employers are urged to submit listings to theAnthropology Newsletter as soon as possible solhat deadline dates occur no earlier than ihe lastday of the month in which the issue is published,but Ihe problem remains one of balancing theneeds of employers, who sometimes must fillunanticipated openings under limited time con-straints, with the need of applicants for enoughtime to respond. If the newsletter systematicallyrefused lo publish all listings having closedeadlines, il would only be encouraging relianceon the "old boy" neiwork.

Active |ob-seekers should be ready to respondquickly by having resumes available and by ask-ing referees to prepare lelters beforehand

Louis F Cimino