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nupe357 Junior Member Posts: 4 Registered: Dec 2004	posted 19 May 2005 10:23 AM I'm sure this has been said a million times before but.... You refer to "actual" history and "actual" perspective in regards to history. Perhaps a better term would be "whose" history and "whose" perspective. I don't beleive (generally speaking) that their is an "actual" or "real" history. This pre-supposes a type of decontextualized existence where history (and the events and people it portrays) take place in a vacum of (alleged) neutrality. That is you (we?) seek a value-free/persepctive-free snapshot of what "really" happened (or didn't happen) at a given point in time. As you may have guessed, I find this problematic..... quote: Originally posted by Super car: My remark was in response to your "question" of Discovery channel airing "Afrocentric theories" of Egyptology, and I made it so, because I believe 'actual' Ancient Egypt history should be aired, and nothing that is suggestive of bais, as labels like "Afrocentric" or "Eurocentric" invoke. This is what I was referring to as the goal of this board; to put history into its actual perspective. IP: Logged
Horemheb Member Posts: 1746 Registered: Jan 2004	posted 19 May 2005 10:45 AM well, it actually borders on absurdity. There is no afrocentric view of history. Only an attempt to use history for modern political reasons. Their views will never be accepted by minstream scholars. Most of them lack even a basic grounding in history and simply mouth what they have heard from others. IP: Logged
Super car Member Posts: 1041 Registered: Jan 2005	posted 19 May 2005 01:42 PM quote: Originally posted by nupe357: You refer to "actual" history and "actual" perspective in regards to history. Perhaps a better term would be "whose" history and "whose" perspective. I don't beleive (generally speaking) that their is an "actual" or "real" history. This pre-supposes a type of decontextualized existence where history (and the events and people it portrays) take place in a vacum of (alleged) neutrality. That is you (we?) seek a value-free/persepctive-free snapshot of what "really" happened (or didn't happen) at a given point in time. As you may have guessed, I find this problematic..... That is solely your problem, not mine. What you think of the quest of getting to bottom of the truth, is something I could care less about. I know what I want, and what my goals are. Thank you. IP: Logged

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