Michael Strutt wrote:

<A friend was arguing with an historian, trained in folklore>
<who states that only historians are objective enough to study 
<history because they do not have any theoretical bias.">

        I don't think this man trained in folklore was really serious.
Nobody in history would state this kind of thing because, intellectually
speaking, there is not much difference between archaeologists and
historians.  If you really want to know, historians often say that the
archaeologists are too close from their material sources.  That comes from
all the time required to find artifact, for classification, for
preservation, etc.  This special relation does'nt really exist for the
historians because this part of the job is done by the archivists.  The
historians have then more time to devote to the structure of the
explanation.  But that does not mean that their texts are written without
bias.


Bernard Allaire (Historian)
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