How Editing Current Anthropology Set My Goals as Wenner-Gren President

Fox shares how editing Current Anthropology set his goals as Wenner-Gren President. According to him, the measure of an academic journal for me is not how many years it has exited but how well it has fulfilled its mission over that period. He further stresses that Current Anthropology from its very...

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Veröffentlicht in:Current anthropology 2009-12, Vol.50 (6), p.941-943
1. Verfasser: Fox, Richard G.
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Zusammenfassung:Fox shares how editing Current Anthropology set his goals as Wenner-Gren President. According to him, the measure of an academic journal for me is not how many years it has exited but how well it has fulfilled its mission over that period. He further stresses that Current Anthropology from its very beginning set out to break away from academic orthodoxy and to ignore disciplinary status hierarchies--the "CA Treatment" and the CA community of scholars that Sol Tax introduced set the journal on a progressive course 50 years ago.
ISSN:0011-3204
1537-5382
DOI:10.1086/648314