How to get your Anthropology Thesis published in two steps

First, write a reasonably good thesis. Write a brilliant one if you can manage. Then....

Give birth to the President of the United States of America!!!!

A dissertation written by President Barack Obama's late mother is being published.

Duke University Press said Monday that an edited version of Ann Dunham's anthropological study about rural craftsmen in Indonesia is scheduled to reach stores this fall. Dunham completed the study three years before she died in 1995.

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I don't mean to sound snarky. I think it is a great idea for a number of reasons.

HT: Stephanie

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Or you can just publish a first rate novel as an anthropolgy thesis like Carlos Castanada's Teachings of Don Juan.