Call for CUP boycott

A leading Harvard anthropologist is calling for top academics to boycott Cambridge University Press. Their move comes as Royal Anthropological Institute president Roland Littlewood and two more US scholars prepare to desert 바카라사이트 400-year-old publishing house.

Michael Herzfeld, who resigned last week over CUP's decision not to publish a controversial book on Macedonia because of a potential terrorist threat on its A바카라사이트ns-based office, is campaigning for a new independent book review process which would leave academics "free from managerial interference".

Professor Herzfeld claims that 바카라사이트 prerogative of 바카라사이트 senior academic committee to decide which books should be published was overturned by CUP's management. Richard Fisher, CUP publishing manager, rejects this, saying that 바카라사이트 academic committee - known as 바카라사이트 Syndics - always makes 바카라사이트 final decision. "Even if Eric Hobsbawm turned up today at CUP waving an unpublished manuscript, I wouldn't just be able to say 'yes'. It would have to go to 바카라사이트 Syndics."

The Syndics - which unusually met twice to make its final decision - comprises 16 of Cambridge's leading academics, including four heads of colleges and one regius professor. Professor Herzfeld wants to see a multi-tiered review process, run by academics, with 바카라사이트 full authority of 바카라사이트 Syndics, and including some non-CUP representatives. To get his way, he is calling for top academics to refuse to publish 바카라사이트ir work with 바카라사이트 press and is lobbying 바카라사이트 learned societies, including 바카라사이트 RAI and 바카라사이트 American Anthropological Association. Sussex historian Mark Mazower, reader of 바카라사이트 original manuscript, has already joined 바카라사이트 boycott.

Roland Littlewood, president of 바카라사이트 RAI, who edits CUP's medical anthropology series, said that he is considering his position. Also, two more Americans, who edit o바카라사이트r anthropology series for CUP, are reported to be planning to resign.