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Mary Beaudry responded:
>>Carl and Bob
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>>Re the formation of SHA and its relationship to SAA. As one who was there
>>I can put the reason in four words: A lack of respect.
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>>Rick
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>Then and now.
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>MCB
Seems that we have this "lack of respect" problem in other areas, too. For
years, the Society for Industrial Archaeology has been running a
first-class shop, but vast numbers of "other" archaeologists persist in
looking down their noses at the whole discipline, to the point of
dismissing industrial resources as unworthy of study.
Then there are the statistics Bob Schuyler quoted about cross-membership.
We should be really distressed at the small number of SHA people who are
members of provincial, state, and local societies. It's the local
societies that feed our profession its political support, its incoming
student population, and the demand for our services. Yet the local and
state socieites (in our area at least) are dwindling, and the professionals
attend only when they are on the program.
It's about time this fragmentation between subdisciplines, between amateur
and professional, and between regions, should stop. The incoming
administration will be hostile to the social sciences, and a lot of us will
be out on the street very soon, mark my words. Talk about "lack of
respect," we ain't seen nothin' yet.
Ned Heite ([log in to unmask])
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