As someone in the field, Anglo-Saxon has a limited contemporary usage and people of that time didn’t ID as such. And just because it’s in schoolbooks etc doesn’t mean we shouldn’t move past it. There are plenty of terms we have gotten rid of.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @stmarnock69 and
And that argument is silly because it assumes that we don’t already make changes or advocate for changes in scholarship. When I was in my undergrad my archaeology textbooks became incorrect the year I purchased them
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @stmarnock69 and
Because the Neanderthal genome sequencing was released 6 months after I purchased that textbook, which said that we have no relation to Neanderthals. Also, people were saying Anglo-Saxon England. Removing “Anglo-Saxon” and replacing it with “Early Medieval”
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @stmarnock69 and
Is in fact more inclusive of the multitudes of identities at the time.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DollyJorgensen and
My way of thinking is that tying a period to a contemporary geographical area has greater utility than calling a period “Anglo-Saxon”. No Jutes? No Irish? No Ramano-Britons? England has always been a place of many peoples. IMHO if we wish to label that period, geographical
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @AdmiralHip and
designation has greater utility than a fictive imagined community which Anglo-Saxon clearly denotes.
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @AdmiralHip and
I’ll only add to all this that I acknowledge the problem - but I disagree w proposed solution. I’m inspired by work of Sara Bond who has countered appropriation of white classical statues w writing on polychromy & racial diversity in Rome. To me it’s better approach.
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Replying to @DollyJorgensen @AdmiralHip and
It is an interesting and important conversation to have. I’m an admirer of
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Replying to @stmarnock69 @DollyJorgensen and
I like her work too. But she is also advocating for the historical accuracy of the polychromatic statues and that the Roman Empire was diverse. We are arguing that the term Anglo-Saxon was not very historically accurate, and we have the sources to prove it.
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It appears you were being used as a shield to keep a racist term on the books. You have to love how white European scholars imagine none of our fields and those dealing with white supremacy issues never talk to each other or support each other.
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