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FINDING A BALANCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2012

Michael W. Spence
Michael W. Spence*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, CanadaN6A 5C2
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E-mail correspondence to: spence@uwo.ca
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The invitation to do this autobiographical article reached me on my seventieth birthday, catching me in an unusually reflective mood, so I decided to take a stab at it. If nothing else, I could honor my mentors, especially James Anderson and René Millon. Without them I might still be doing archaeology but it would be a very different sort of archaeology, probably not as good and certainly not as much fun. But I don't find this kind of writing easy. Social scientists are not used to having “I” as the main subject of a sentence, an analogy perhaps to the difficulty we have in maintaining a balance between our professional and personal lives. However, I seem to have overcome that academic modesty, as this paragraph demonstrates. So here we go.

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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Spring 2012 , pp. 1 - 7
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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