2nd February 2012, 03:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd February 2012, 04:54 PM by quintaine.)
P Prentice Wrote:hold on a minute
tolerance is one thing but silence is tantamount to collusion
do we really want people to believe the druids have a right to bury important human assemblages?
i should coco
So whatever happened to respect for other cultures and beliefs?
and the motto "Archaeology for All", is that "all" who believe exactly like you do, or a grand encompassing "all"
Why not claim that all who hold beliefs that differ from you are crackpots and then you can have a pure untainted archaeology or at least modify the motto.
After all we can't have people roaming around believing what they want, they must be governed, dictated to, have every trace of individuality erased, or all hell would break loose.
They must learn our ways- we must not be silent, jeez, how colonial is that.
Do archaeologists exist to learn from our own and other cultures of the past and/or present or dictate to them?
The outlook on this forum is so depressing, that you are so convinced of the sactimonious propaganda you decree, not debate, makes archaeology more like the cults you claim to be crackpots.
Archaeology, at least the view of archaeology in this forum, does not hold exclusive rights to the past. It does not and should not proclaim a monopoly on interpretation. The criticism that just because an archaeological question has not been debated in the halls of universities, with stringent peer reviews and a 100 years of tradition yada yada... somehow invalidates the discussion is such an elitest and Western one. If archaeology is for all- then it should be for ALL!