Did my replies to this not come to the list? Maybe they only went to your
address, but I thought the email had both addreses on it?
~Caroline.
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From: "kaligrafr" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] thoughts on bias and public response to
your work in the mainstream
> Aloha,
>
> Caroline Tully wrote:
>> I'm not ignoring a text, or how a text is produced. I'm just ignoring
>> what non-academic Goddess Worshippers have to say about an archaeological
>> site because I think they are wrong and I lean more towards listening to
>> the academic team of excavators. If anyone is doing any ignoring, it is
>> the Goddess Worshippers!
> Archaeologists are certainly capable of taking a particular outlook on a
> site, an artifact, or an inferred cultural trait--and defending that
> outlook
> to the death.
>
> I think that access to sites and to items of material culture probably do
> give archaeologists an advantage when it comes to offering interpretations
> of findings. But doing archeology is not an assurance of being correct--
> or even in the ballpark.
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