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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9188855" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Adding a couple bits to the above about where sources come from:Palgrave, Routledge, and Princeton University Press are also quality institutions who seem to provide a lot for my shelves. Never means they’re right, but books they publish are not likely to be wrong in common ways.Age is a variable thing, and solid generalizations still have exceptions. Like, the foundational work on Aztec thought as philosophy (rather than theology, poetry, etc) in the century or so before conquest is from 1963! Most of the work anchored in still-current archeology and analysis is from the 1990s on, but everyone worth reading now still speaks respectfully about that guy. So the specific story of a field matters. Speaking of which, the more you know about intellectual history, the more boggling Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris gets. He lays out generations of the future history of xenobiology in amazingly plausible terms. Fun read, if you like histories of ideas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9188855, member: 6671663"] Adding a couple bits to the above about where sources come from: Palgrave, Routledge, and Princeton University Press are also quality institutions who seem to provide a lot for my shelves. Never means they’re [I]right[/I], but books they publish are not likely to be wrong in common ways. Age is a variable thing, and solid generalizations still have exceptions. Like, the foundational work on Aztec thought as philosophy (rather than theology, poetry, etc) in the century or so before conquest is from 1963! Most of the work anchored in still-current archeology and analysis is from the 1990s on, but everyone worth reading now still speaks respectfully about that guy. So the specific story of a field matters. Speaking of which, the more you know about intellectual history, the more boggling Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris gets. He lays out generations of the future history of xenobiology in amazingly plausible terms. Fun read, if you like histories of ideas. [/QUOTE]

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