Talk:An Academic Question

Alan's academic field?
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)


 * 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)