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From: Robin Reed <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: students and internationalism
 
 
>In a message dated 99-02-22 12:15:35 EST, you write:
>
><< After all, whatever their professors may have done in the past, I would
>hazard a guess that the vast majority of VCU (or university students in
>Virginia in general) anthro students don't visit Maharajah's palaces before
>becoming professional archaeologists, and that their international work
>experience, if any, involves a summer improving their tan and drinking Red
>Stripe in the Caribbean. >>
>
>Is this your opinion of anthro students in general, the United States
>specifically or just from university students in Virginia?
>
>Might I ask how many of your students have been to archaeological sites in
the
>United States?
>
>I think the importance of site selection should be dependent upon the
emphasis
>of the student's particular area of study.  Since most archaeologists are
>site/culture specific, the desire to learn as much as possible about that
>interest is vital to their knowledge and understanding.
>
>This is not to say that experience garnered at sites outside their interest
>would not be instructional, but many students tend not to have a lot of
>expendable time or cash to indulge in studies outside their designated
>geographic area.
>
>
>Robin A Reed
>Cal State Hayward, California
>