The essay is both more open and more closed than traditional thought would like.It is more open in so far as, through its inner nature, it negates anything systematic and satisfies itself all the better the more strictly it excludes the systematic. . . .On the other hand, the essay is more closed in that it labors emphatically on the form of its presentation.The consciousness of the nonidentity between presentation and presented material forces the form to make unlimited efforts.-T. W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form"Very early in our tenure as coeditors of Cultural Anthropology (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010), before we began our years-long, nagging push for open access-an issue about which we had almost no awareness at the time 1 -we had a seemingly more minor and short-lived nagging struggle with the journal's copyeditor (whose work overall we greatly appreciated).When our first issue's redlined manuscripts came back to us, in every essay, every instance of essay-a word that appeared at least in each abstract ("In this essay . ..")-was struck through and changed to article.Publications of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), we were told, were "articles."Writing in the margins, among the comment boxes and queries and typographers' instructions, we explained our insistence on retaining the word:
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