12th February 2007, 12:46 PM
This was reported early last week in a long feature in the Guardian, too. Online version is here:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/stor...02,00.html
What is really frigthening is that some museum directors appear to think that this is actually a good idea...
"Some in the museum community say it is unfair for scientists to impose their world view on pagans. "We think that there is actually an intellectual argument for pagan claims to be taken seriously," said Prof Bienkowski, "It is a different world view which, actually, like the scientific world view can be neither proved nor disproved. It is actually our responsibility to take those views into account." What right, he asks, do scientists have to speak for the bones either?"
(The Guardian, Febuary 5th 2007).
I am usually a fairly politicaly conscious with regards to archaeology's colonial and neo-colonial past and problems, but let's face it British Druids aren't the same as Australian Aboriginal groups or Native American tribes!
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/stor...02,00.html
What is really frigthening is that some museum directors appear to think that this is actually a good idea...
"Some in the museum community say it is unfair for scientists to impose their world view on pagans. "We think that there is actually an intellectual argument for pagan claims to be taken seriously," said Prof Bienkowski, "It is a different world view which, actually, like the scientific world view can be neither proved nor disproved. It is actually our responsibility to take those views into account." What right, he asks, do scientists have to speak for the bones either?"
(The Guardian, Febuary 5th 2007).
I am usually a fairly politicaly conscious with regards to archaeology's colonial and neo-colonial past and problems, but let's face it British Druids aren't the same as Australian Aboriginal groups or Native American tribes!