Egypt
Publishing Archaeology (Michael E. Smith)
- Book Review: Museum Revolutions
Journal of Folklore Research (Reviewed by Carrie Hertz) Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed, edited by Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod, and Sheila Watson. 2007. London and New York: Routledge. Museums—wishing to do good in the world,...
- Open Access Oxyrhynchus
Ancient World Online See the above address for the links. Archive.org now has the first fourteen volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri online in toto and in a variety of formats, for viewing and for download; Volumes 1-5 are digitized by Google Books from...
- Online Resource: Publishing Archaeology Blog Is Looking For Contributions
Publishing Archaeology (Michael E. Smith) I've published Michael's post in full below. Do contact him from his blog at the above address if you are intersted in contributing. Do you have something interesting to say about issues of publishing...
- Book Review: Egypt In The Byzantine World 300-700
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book's genesis lies in the annual Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies, which in 2004 was dedicated to the theme 'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700'. Roger Bagnall subsequently expanded the...
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Ritual. Cotsen Advanced Seminars, 3
Bryn Mawr Classical Review I've included this review in spite of the fact that it doesn't mention Egypt, because the general topic is relevant and might be of interest to those who are looking at ancient Egyptian religion and ritual and would...
Egypt
Why are so many edited volumes worthless?
Publishing Archaeology (Michael E. Smith)
I think that "worthless" is harsh, but I have been wondering why, recently, so many edited volumes that really don't seem to live up to the potential of the individual contributors are now so popular.
Anyone who follows publishing in archaeology (and probably in academia in general) knows that there has been a great increase in the number of edited collections in the past decade or so. In my humble opinion, many—perhaps most—of these are close to worthless. I’ll spout off about this for a bit, and then provide some suggestions for graduate students and young professionals who are thinking of editing a collection of essays (since these tend to be the worst offenders in producing books of dubious value).
Why the profusion of edited volumes?
- Book Review: Museum Revolutions
Journal of Folklore Research (Reviewed by Carrie Hertz) Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed, edited by Simon J. Knell, Suzanne MacLeod, and Sheila Watson. 2007. London and New York: Routledge. Museums—wishing to do good in the world,...
- Open Access Oxyrhynchus
Ancient World Online See the above address for the links. Archive.org now has the first fourteen volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri online in toto and in a variety of formats, for viewing and for download; Volumes 1-5 are digitized by Google Books from...
- Online Resource: Publishing Archaeology Blog Is Looking For Contributions
Publishing Archaeology (Michael E. Smith) I've published Michael's post in full below. Do contact him from his blog at the above address if you are intersted in contributing. Do you have something interesting to say about issues of publishing...
- Book Review: Egypt In The Byzantine World 300-700
Bryn Mawr Classical Review This book's genesis lies in the annual Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies, which in 2004 was dedicated to the theme 'Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700'. Roger Bagnall subsequently expanded the...
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Ritual. Cotsen Advanced Seminars, 3
Bryn Mawr Classical Review I've included this review in spite of the fact that it doesn't mention Egypt, because the general topic is relevant and might be of interest to those who are looking at ancient Egyptian religion and ritual and would...