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Friday, July 21, 2006

Works Cited

I have just started reading Shepard Krech's The Ecological Indian Myth and History , It seem like it will be an interesting book, but one annoying quality leaps right out at the beginning. While it has very thorough endnotes, with discussion even, it has no bibliography. This is more than just a minor inconvenience. I have been told that this sort of thing is often the result of production costs but is this really acceptable? The whole point of a bibliography is to help the reader identify the writer's sources and that becomes much more difficult when searching an endnote. Especially one that cites 8 different sources, and this is hardly an exceptional one.

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