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Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2019

James C. Scott
James C. Scott*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and Yale Agrarian Studies ProgramYale UniversityNew Haven, CT 06422USA Email: james.scott@yale.edu
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The fact that 10 notable scholars have taken the time to examine my book Against the Grain and provide thoughtful commentary is a form of flattery of which I am acutely conscious and very grateful. This would be the case even if their comments had ben totally damning! I braced myself for the onslaught of a phalanx of archaeologists justifiably indignant that a rank amateur should even dare trespass on their turf. When invited to reply to such a symposium convened by the CAJ, the thought crossed my mind that I was being brought to the symposium in the same spirit as the Romans ‘invited’ the Christians to the Coliseum. Happily, while there are gashes, bruises and perhaps a life-threatening wound or two, much of my argument seems to have come through the encounter. One or two of the commentators, I understand, believe they left me for dead!

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Review Symposium
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 716 - 721
Copyright
Copyright © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2019 

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