Word: historians
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...sure, one can learn a great deal through translations and use of extensively available secondary literature. But how can a serious anthropologist get a truly scholarly perspective from her/his so-called informants through interpreters and interpretations? Can a serious historian really claim to have access to the best possible sources of a people's systematic account of their social, political, economic, cultural or religious history without first having the tools, especially such basic tools as languages, for his/her investigations? Can one really grasp the profound thoughts and philosophies of a people via translations and secondary works alone? Journalists, politicians...
...Christian civilizations is the study of Ge'ez (Ethiopic), one of the first ten languages of the world into which the Bible was translated and, besides Coptic, the oldest literary language of Africa; not only is Ge'ez the key to an extensive body of literature significant for the historian of Eastern Africa and traditional African religions, but also very valuable to the student of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic literature and history. For the scholar interested in solving a puzzle of history, Meroitic, a cursive form of writing from ancient Kush, offers limitless opportunities. Egyptian, Meroitic...
...feminist, an historian, and a Wellesley graduate, I write in response to Gay Seidman's February 9 review of Livia Baker's book, I'm Radcliffe, Fly Me!: The Seven Sisters and the Failure of Women's Education, and in defense of women's colleges...
...Blacks as Strong, Proud, Culturally Cohesive. The trend began with the Lyndon Johnson years and the rise of militant blacks who scorned the devastated-victim theory as unworthy and abject. The Moynihan report was rejected, if not disproved. Historian Herbert Gutman began work on the view of the black family as shrewd, strong, not nearly as weakened as it had seemed. The extended family had resources unsuspected by whites...
...historian sees it, such airborne misadventures have a social as well as personal function. They externalize a deep, ineradicable fantasy, and behind the vain, comic flap there flies - however briefly - a valuable purpose. Concludes Peter Haining: "The bird-man is, after all, always there to remind us of his intent ... he flies on as ever in our dreams, on our televisions and radios, and even through our day-to-day conversations. We should surely miss him deeply if he were not there." We should, like Dante, have to dream him all over again...