This was a partly tongue-in-cheek talk prepared for a department seminar, which often served as a forum for people to give papers they had always wanted to give but never had the guts. Because the (then) editor of the journal Culture...
moreThis was a partly tongue-in-cheek talk prepared for a department seminar, which often served as a forum for people to give papers they had always wanted to give but never had the guts. Because the (then) editor of the journal Culture knew that I had the goods on him, he agreed to publish it as a commentary. The paper makes a comparison between the theory and practice of archaeology and various forms of magic.