Talk:An Academic Question

Novels Low‑importance

	Novels portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.NovelsWikipedia:WikiProject NovelsTemplate:WikiProject Novelsnovel articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women writers Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women writers, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of women writers on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women writersWikipedia:WikiProject Women writersTemplate:WikiProject Women writersWomen writers articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Alan's academic field? edit

Latest comment: 11 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The plot summary says both that Alan is a sociology lecturer and that his field is anthropology. The text says, 'Crispin Maynard had been a pioneer in the field of the history of pre-literate peoples .... This was Alan's subject, too, but he had come to it from anthropology whereas Crispin had started out as a historian.' So 'anthropology' seems closer than 'sociology', though I'm not sure that the name of Alan's 'department' is ever spelt out. Snugglepuss (talk) 14:42, 22 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Given Pym's great knowledge of anthropology, that seems more appropriate than sociology. But as the summary refers later to 'their shared field of anthroplogy' it might be simpler to just say in the opening sentence that Alan is a lecturer, and leave it at that.Sbishop (talk) 15:06, 22 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Add topic