Saturday 5 May 2012

Dissent With Modification

Here is a brilliant book to read if you are interested in archaeology but also like the novels of H.G.Wells and don't mind learning a bit more about how anthropology developed as an academic subject of study.

The author, John McNabb,  Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the university of Southampton, has an engaging style of writing and such an invigorating enthusiasm for his subject that you will be swept along learning all about it despite your previous unfamiliarity with all the technical terms.

If you become seriously interested there are thousands of references to follow up and this book will be an invaluable text for anyone either doing or about to start on an archaeology degree.

Dr McNabb is an academic who inspires great devotion in his students and at the event to launch Dissent With Modification the largest lecture theatre on the university's Avenue Campus was packed. The book is that pretty rare object - an academic work that is also a very good read.