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> Pertinent question: who on the list has heard of the ASHA and AACA journals
> and does anyone apart from us read them? As these journals are our main
> avenue of expression if their usage is mainly insular then it would be no
> wonder that the international world don't know we exist.
I can give a perspective of sorts from a university point of view for the UK
and the USA, but obviously this is a narrow personal perspective, and makes
no claims towards being representative - especially since it partially
depends on experiences that happened up to 15 years ago.
In the early years of working on my doctorate in the UK (before moving to
Australia), one of the members of my advisory panel, Lawrence Butler (also
the first editor of 'Post-Medieval archaeology') did encourage me to read
the Australian literature, particularly early issues of AHA and Graham
Connah's book ('Of the Hut I Builded'). However, I think Lawrence was
encouraging me to add context to work that was already based on
international comparisons, so I have no idea of how typical this was. And
were it not for running into Susan Lawrence in Quebec City, I wouldn't have
been that aware of more recent work before arriving here (nor would I be in
Australia at all).
It's obviously rather unfair to compare graduate work with undergraduate
work, but when I was an undergraduate in the USA in the 80's, I can
confidently state that no Australian work whatsoever was on my assigned
reading list, largely because (for who knows what reason) I still seem to
have a copy of my "Anthropology 450 - Historical Archaeology" course
syllabus, and there's nothing Australian on it.
Alasdair Brooks
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