Both Tedlocks, who apparently do not read anthro-l, spoke with me Friday. They said they had received many complimentary letters and calls about their first issue of the journal. But so far nobody with critical comments had written to them. Instead they felt like there was a lynch mob forming, but without engaging them in dialog or asking for explanations first. I suggest that people with comments and critiques do what Lieber suggests.
Lets have debate and discussion first.
Perhaps more than one issue needs to come out. Otherwise we are engaging in gossip. Nevertheless, Anthro-l is the best and only forum where we can discuss these issues, without waiting for the lengthy process of publication of letters in the AA newsletter. I do not in any way want to discourage commentary. As I said previously, I did not like the line-up of papers in the last issue, but I did like the format change.