Good for you Barb!
Nan

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> On Dec 11, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Barbara Voss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear hist arch colleagues,
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> I too was taken aback by the price of this book - I do not pretend to
> understand Springer's pricing model, which clearly is focused on library
> acquisitions rather than individual readers.
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> I do want to address Bill's comment about translation/copyediting, which I
> trust was aimed at Springer's production department and not the contributing
> authors.
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> Many of the contributing scholars do not speak English as their first
> language, and it was an incredible effort and commitment on their part to
> write and publish their work in English so that it would be accessible to
> those of us who are not fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Very few United
> States historical archaeologists make the same effort to publish our work in
> languages other than English. Having worked closely on book projects with
> other international scholars, I know there is a fine line between
> copyediting for clarity and transforming the meanings of the author's
> original text. As the volume commentator, I read the whole book cover to
> cover. I could clearly understand the content of each chapter.
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> I hope that the price and technical editing concerns don't detract too much
> from the potential impact of this important volume. Similar to Funari,
> Jones, and Hall's 1999 Historical Archaeology: Back From The Edge, this book
> brings Latin American and Iberian historical archaeology and theory to an
> English-speaking audience, and opens new pathways to north-south and
> transoceanic dialogues about the archaeology of colonialism. That's worth
> celebrating!
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> --Barb
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill
> Green
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> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:50 AM
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> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: HISTARCH Digest - 9 Dec 2014 to 10 Dec 2014 (#2014-232)
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> Not to pile on -- the chapter titles look interesting -- but for $179.00 I
> expect a well translated and decently copy edited book. Click on the "Free
> Preview" in the link Barb Voss provided and cringe at the first sentence and
> the second paragraph. I could not continue reading.
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> Bill Green
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>> Date:    Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:32:36 -0500
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>> From:    "Timothy K. Perttula" <
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>> Subject: Re: new publication: Archaeology of Culture Contact and
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>> Colonialism of Spanish and Portuguese America
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>> At $179.00 for a moderately-sized book, saying it is pricy is a bit
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>> of an understatement. Too bad Springer can't put out a book that the
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>> archeological community can afford.
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Barbara Voss &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;
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>> To: HISTARCH &lt;[log in to unmask]&gt;
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>> Sent: Wed, Dec 10, 2014 8:03 pm
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>> Subject: new publication: Archaeology of Culture Contact and
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>> Colonialism of Spanish and Portuguese America
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> Pedro Funari and Maria Ximena Senatore have a great new book out that
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>> may be of interest to some of you: Archaeology of Culture Contact and
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>> Colonialism of Spanish and Portuguese America
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>> http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/anthropology+%26+archaeology/b
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>> ook/97
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>> 8-3-319-08068-0
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>> Full disclosure: I wrote the end-of-book commentary, so I got to have
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>> an early read of the manuscript while it was still in production.
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>> It's really an impressive collection with a great variety of important
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>> case studies from throughout the Americas and Iberia.
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>> Like all Springer books, it's pricey, so you might want to ask your
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>> library to get a copy.
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>> --Barb
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