Comments on: Giving away your books at the end http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/ critical anthropology of academic culture Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: eli http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-562 eli Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:00:44 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=399#comment-562 note to self: see also gina barreca's "<a href="http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/barreca/the-pleasures-of-a-disorganized-library" rel="nofollow">pleasures of a disorganized library</a>," with particularly interesting self-reported descriptions of bookshelves in the comments. note to self: see also gina barreca’s “pleasures of a disorganized library,” with particularly interesting self-reported descriptions of bookshelves in the comments.

]]> By: eli http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-537 eli Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:00:32 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=399#comment-537 hey eli(m), yeah, there's an interesting phenomenon in seeing other people's books where certain books are sociologically predictable according to research topic (you work on universities, you're bound to have a bunch of bourdieu, etc) and other books are kind of surprising, and then the interesting question is about the origin of the less predictable ones... also, yeah, it's true about my uncle. i don't usually advertise, though! eli hey eli(m),
yeah, there’s an interesting phenomenon in seeing other people’s books where certain books are sociologically predictable according to research topic (you work on universities, you’re bound to have a bunch of bourdieu, etc) and other books are kind of surprising, and then the interesting question is about the origin of the less predictable ones… also, yeah, it’s true about my uncle. i don’t usually advertise, though!
eli

]]> By: Eli M. http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/comment-page-1/#comment-527 Eli M. Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:43:46 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=399#comment-527 Nice post. When I've rummaged through retiring professors old books before, I've also wondered at what historical or personal context had made the books they bought seem important at the time. I've also been amazed at how many books they accumulate without cracking the spine. Your grandfather seems like he was a cool professor. Even more intriguing, was your uncle, Peter Tork, a member of the Monkees? Nice post. When I’ve rummaged through retiring professors old books before, I’ve also wondered at what historical or personal context had made the books they bought seem important at the time. I’ve also been amazed at how many books they accumulate without cracking the spine.

Your grandfather seems like he was a cool professor. Even more intriguing, was your uncle, Peter Tork, a member of the Monkees?

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