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>>From: dogyears <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: AAA Piltdown Prize
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>>From: Mara Greengrass <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: The AAA Piltdown Prize
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>>To anthropologists interested in pseudoscience, I wanted to call your
>attention to a new award being given by the American Anthropological
>Association, the Piltdown Prize. I urge you to please submit an entry or
>entries. Following is the announcement, which appeared in the December
>_Anthropology Newsletter_.
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>>Mara Greengrass
>>Program Assistant, Government and Media Relations
>>703-528-1902 x3029
>>
>>The AN's Piltdown Prize is your opportunity to tell us what's really
>gotten your goat as an anthropologist. It will be given to whomever or
>whatever was the biggest banana peel in the road of the discipline in the
>past year. Winners can be a person, place, organization, thing, idea or
>cartoon character--as long as it's not a fellow anthropologist or the AAA.
>Be prepared to explain how this entity has set back the field of
>anthropology.
>>
>>Possible nominations for this year might be as small as the zillionth
>edition of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (management is that
>simple?), or as all encompassing as capitalism (who needs money anyway?).
>>
>>Semi-Official Rules
>>
>>1) All entries must include an explanation, don't assume we know
>everything that happens in the wide world of anthropology.
>>
>>2) Mean-spirited entries, or entries picking on other anthropologists or
>the AAA will be summarily discarded.
>>
>>3) Judging will be at the whim of the AAA staff, their friends, families
>and pets.
>>
>>4) Entries will be judged on humor, truthfulness, humor, aerodynamics of
>the printout, humor and grammar, but not necessarily in that order.
>>
>>5) All entries must be received by January 31, 1998 and winners will be
>printed in the To Wit column of the AN. So, what irritated you in 1998?
>Send your nominations and let your kvetch be heard.
>>
>>Send nominations to Mara Greengrass, 4350 N Fairfax Dr, Suite 640,
>Arlington, VA 22203-1621; [log in to unmask] [Mara is the Program
>Assistant for Government and Media Relations, even though her mother wishes
>she were a doctor.]
>>
>>Piltdown Prize Example #1
>>
>>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the video store, it's
>Technologies of the Gods. Yes, the children of von Daniken live, and these
>days they are living at Fox Lorber Associates and Mystic Fire Video. The
>AAA office recently received a press release trumpeting a new video. They
>"present an unorthodox case for pre-historic high technology." Apparently
>"the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Mayan Temples were built with
>high-tech engineering methods equal to, if not superior, to those used
>today." Aliens, lost technology... Sound familiar? Do we have to do this
>all over again? Thank
>>you, film makers, for setting back public knowledge of archaeology at
>least 50 years.
>
>
Anita Cohen-Williams
Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, SPANBORD
Contributing Editor, Anthropology page, http://www.suite101.com
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