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      Publish or Perish!
            Anthropologists, ethnologists, linguists: the evolutionary alternative awaits...

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!KANGA: Because fieldwork doesn't have to be work

It’s an old dilemma: you must publish to get ahead, but who has time when fieldwork is so exhausting, time-consuming, and difficult?

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!KANGA resort staff are ready to assist you with a dizzying array of services: complete travel arrangements; grant-writing help; even the inside stuff on the editors of top journals. And our accommodations are first rate, as you’d expect. But the real stars at !KANGA, of course, are the people themselves: Friendly, engaging, and eager to indulge your pet theory.

     
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“Louis Leakey”
1 month basic research
Features translator, 1 informant, community tent, complimentary artifact, religious ritual, bonus audio tape. Great for grad students or adjunct faculty. Dry season only.
      “Noam Chomsky”
1 week linguist special
Trained informants rehearse your script, speak confidently into included tape recorder. Perfect for that hard-to-prove theory, hard-to-please editor. Choice of souvenir artifact.
     
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“Desmond Morris”
2 month shot at tenure
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      “Joseph Campbell”
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3 month career maker
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1 day celebrity photo op
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      It’s up to you

Yes, we all know teaching is important work, fulfilling work. But do you really want to face the dulled young faces of one more Anthro 101, one more semester, for the rest of your life? At !KANGA we understand what it takes to succeed. We’ve been hunting and gathering in the same marginal territory for ten thousand years, which should strike a chord as you survey your own picked-over field.

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The Phone-of-the-Month Club—Advertisement
What Part of ‘No’ Don’t You Understand?—Strang Burton
Collateral Descendant of Lingua Pranca Contents