Comments on: Giving away your books at the end https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/05/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/ critical anthropology of academic culture Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:00:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 By: eli https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/05/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/#comment-974 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:00:44 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=399#comment-974 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 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/05/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/#comment-973 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:00:32 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=399#comment-973 In reply to Eli M..

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. https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2009/02/05/giving-away-your-books-at-the-end/#comment-972 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:43:46 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=399#comment-972 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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