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The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life (review)

The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life (review) book reviews frequently incomplete, inaccurate, and inconsistent, and all in all the bibliography (and sometimes the rest of the book as well) reads like an unedited transcription of rough notes. For all its ¯aws, Indus Age: The Writing System compiles a fair amount of information and gives a useful general summary of the state of the art with regard to the Indus script. Those seeking a more accurate and sophisticated treatment, especially from a linguistic point of view, however, would do best to look elsewhere, for instance at Asko Parpola's Deciphering the Indus Script (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). The Most O¨ending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life. Judith M. Heimann. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1999. vii 468 pp.; illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. Paperback, $26.95. ISBN: 0-8248-2199-8. Reviewed by Wilhelm Solheim, University of the Philippines Judith Heimann has presented in her book what I feel is a very accurate, well-written and enjoyable picture of Tom Harrisson. This is the ®rst time this has been done for a man who was and will remain a very important person in the development of archaeology in Southeast Asia, even though he was neither a trained nor a good http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Perspectives University of Hawai'I Press

The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life (review)

Solheim, Wilhelm G.
Asian Perspectives , Volume 39 (1) – Jan 1, 2000
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book reviews frequently incomplete, inaccurate, and inconsistent, and all in all the bibliography (and sometimes the rest of the book as well) reads like an unedited transcription of rough notes. For all its ¯aws, Indus Age: The Writing System compiles a fair amount of information and gives a useful general summary of the state of the art with regard to the Indus script. Those seeking a more accurate and sophisticated treatment, especially from a linguistic point of view, however, would do best to look elsewhere, for instance at Asko Parpola's Deciphering the Indus Script (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). The Most O¨ending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life. Judith M. Heimann. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1999. vii 468 pp.; illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. Paperback, $26.95. ISBN: 0-8248-2199-8. Reviewed by Wilhelm Solheim, University of the Philippines Judith Heimann has presented in her book what I feel is a very accurate, well-written and enjoyable picture of Tom Harrisson. This is the ®rst time this has been done for a man who was and will remain a very important person in the development of archaeology in Southeast Asia, even though he was neither a trained nor a good

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