Exactly: it works in academia, but not outside in the real world... Where
people tend to look at you with some suspicion: you've been in the uni
reading all this theory stuff, instead of learning the craft of fieldwork...


geoff carver - SUNY buffalo
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of paul
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I should point out that I come form an anti-intellectual culture where
having a PhD has not been an advantage - in fact the opposite.


paul courtney
Leicester
UK


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From: "Robert L. Schuyler" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: graduate degree "letters"


> Ron:
>          No idea what "Orden de Merito Civil" is but I am impressed.  
> By the way, did you get the Iron Cross for discovering that Nazi radio 
> in San Diego?
>
>          Of course, the Schuyler family has an original family crest. 
> I think it is an arm (knight's) with a bird sitting on it. I think the 
> bird is a chicken but there is also a helmet with plumes
coming
> out of it.
>
>          This horse still has a lot of life left in it.
>                                                          RLS
>
>          P.S. There is nothing wrong with using research or published 
> information produced by bottle collectors, other looters or even 
> Republicans. The looting is most certainly wrong and I do not think 
> most bottle collectors can be converted to joining in the  
> archaeological process (cf. a lot of amateur underwater divers).
>
>
>
>
> At 04:30 AM 8/28/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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> >Bob, funny you should ask about OBE. I have OMC (Orden del Merito 
> >Civil)
from
> >Spain (1989) but, sadly, no one calls me "Sir"....or even "Mr."
> >
> >Ron May
> >Legacy 106, Inc.
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> >Bob, funny you should ask= about OBE. I have OMC (Orden del Merito 
> >Civil) from Spain (1989) but, sadly= , no one calls me "Sir"....or 
> >even "Mr."
> >
> >Ron May
> >Legacy 106, Inc.
> >--Boundary_(ID_hKhUYVJcB30NqSOLFs2/hQ)--
>
> Robert L. Schuyler
> University of Pennsylvania Museum
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> Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324
>
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