How to Get Published in Anthropology

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This volume is a terrific source of professional wisdom about publishing and career development in all fields of anthropology. Targeting students and young professionals, it provides a road map for how to publish in various venues and how to prioritize one's scholarly and publishing endeavors. The guide's first section, "Step-by-Step Guidance and Advice," provides brief stand-alone chapters by recognized anthropologists concerning necessary academic career activities: organizing panels for professional meetings, presenting at conferences, submitting manuscripts to journals, and rewriting a dissertation into a book. (Many anthropologists would have benefitted from this guide years ago.) Part 2 features concise treatments of concerns relevant to the various subdisciplines within anthropology, e.g., archaeology, linguistics, and sociocultural anthropology. The final section discusses general publishing considerations such as author agreements, copyright, collaboration, and online opportunities. The guide also contains an appendix of peer-reviewed journals, and another appendix listing publishers of anthropology monographs. In sum, this guide is authoritative, insightful, affordable, current, and indispensable. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate and faculty libraries. * Choice Reviews * How to Get Published in Anthropology is essential reading for all graduate students and the professors who teach them. The contributors practice what they preach by offering lively, concise, and well-written essays that cover the rapidly changing field of publishing. Step-by-step guidance is provided to guide burgeoning authors, from presenting conference papers to publishing journal articles, books, and digital communications. Attention is given to subdisciplinary considerations, and valuable advice is provided about technical issues such as author agreements, copyright, and collaboration. I enthusiastically recommend this book to my young colleagues and to anyone who wants to know more about the field of anthropological publishing. -- T. J. Ferguson, University of Arizona A must for every anthropologist's bookshelf: graduates students, young scholars, and senior anthropologists who mentor younger colleagues. The authors of these sixteen short chapters give detailed advice on presenting a poster or conference paper, publishing in a journal, writing a book, and navigating new web-based resources. There are suggestions for those in the different sub-fields of anthropology and tips on how to survive a power-point breakdown when presenting a paper, how to deal with a journal's letter of rejection, and how to approach a publisher with a first book manuscript. [There is] sage advice about everything from copyrights to surviving the trials of tenure and promotion. -- Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico