[INDOLOGY] Fwd: New publication

[Jesse Knutson]

These are brilliant points. Could we perhaps draft an open letter to Brill
asking them to endow positions in Indology and Old Javanese (and perhaps
threatening to boycott them otherwise)? It's a very reasonable request in
light what Antonio points out .

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Antonio Ferreira-Jardim <
antonio.jardim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Totally agree Artur.
>
> Professor Wujastyk has often advocated for authors to use Open Source
> publication platforms. I think we should all support his call.
>
> Apart from prestige, I cannot understand from an academic perspective
> why an author would choose to publish with publishers like Brill - a
> for-profit company with shareholders and hunger for ever increasing
> profits. I notice that Brill have never endowed a professorship in
> Indology - yet they have profited from the publications in our field
> for quite some time. It would seem unethical for academics to support
> them - especially in the present climate where our entire field is
> under attack from short-sighted governments on the one hand and
> fundamentalist political groups on the other.
>
> Indology is already in a precarious enough position, why make its
> fruits even more inaccessible? There's no point being the last endowed
> professor of Sanskrit publishing fabulous original research of works
> if noone can read them...
>
> Apologies for the rant.
>
> Kind regards,
> Antonio
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I hate to spoil the fantastic news about the two important publications.
> >
> > The prices. Prof. Bronkhorst's book's price ($ 199)is close to one third
> of
> > my monthly pension. Prof. Zysk's ($ 299) - close to one half of my
> pension.
> >
> > Excellent work there, on the publishers side, but their prices exclude
> me,
> > definitely, from their prospective buyers list.
> >
> > Is my University's Library going to buy the books? One cannot be certain,
> > not considering financial restrictions faced by the educational
> institutions
> > in Poland.
> >
> > Artur Karp
> > Warsaw
> > Poland
> >
> > 2016-04-14 8:42 GMT+02:00 Kenneth Gregory Zysk <zysk at hum.ku.dk>:
> >>
> >> Also from Brill but in the Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series is my
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The Indian system of human marks in 2 vols. Brill, 2016. ISBN:
> >> 978-90-29972-6.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.brill.com/products/reference-work/indian-system-human-marks
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Kenneth Zysk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: INDOLOGY [mailto:indology-bounces at list.indology.info] On Behalf
> Of
> >> Johannes Bronkhorst
> >> Sent: 13. april 2016 13:36
> >> To: indology at list.indology.info
> >> Subject: [INDOLOGY] New publication
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear friends and colleages,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> My latest book has come out:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas. Brill, 2016. ISBN:
> >> 9789004315198.
> >>
> >> http://www.brill.com/products/book/how-brahmins-won
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Johannes Bronkhorst
> >>
> >>
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-- 
Jesse Ross Knutson PhD
Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali, Department of Indo-Pacific
Languages and Literatures
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
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