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Darwin-L Message Log 1:19 (September 1993)
Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences
This is one message from the Archives of Darwin-L (1993–1997), a professional discussion group on the history and theory of the historical sciences.
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<1:19>From jacobsk@ERE.UMontreal.CA Sun Sep 5 18:42:43 1993 From: jacobsk@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Jacobs Kenneth) Subject: Yet another self-intro To: Darwin-L@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 17:01:53 -0400 (EDT) Greetings, First, my thanks to the organizers of this list for their work. What a wonderful idea! I'm from the US, hope to return there eventually, but not until my kids are more firmly bilingual. So for now I'm Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology at the Universite de Montreal. My "normal scientific" activity focuses on the social and economic transformations in eastern Europe (in the very broad sense of <<from the Carpathians to the Urals, and from the Barents to the Black Seas>>) from the end of the Upper Paleolithic to the onset of the Iron Age. Which sounds like what scads of archaeologists do. My thing, however, is to try to use the human skeletal remains from cemeteries of this time and place to shed light on the cultural changes. My true love though centers on the history and philosophy of the human sciences in general, and those involved in the construction of human evolution more particularly. It's what my grad students are doing their Master's theses on and it's increasingly where my energies go in my own musings, as I amass rejection after rejection of grant proposals to return to the (former) USSR to gather more traditional skeletal data. Perhaps the start-up of this List is some sort of sign? In any event, I look forward to the discussions here. Ken Jacobs Departement d'anthropologie Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128 / Succ. 'A' Montreal Quebec H3C 3J7 CANADA jacobsk@ere.umontreal.ca
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