TY - JOUR

T1 - Ich bin Hobbychirurg und Hobbypolizist

AU - Karl, Raimund

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - The popular archaeological witticism that there can’t be hobby archaeologists, since there are no hobby surgeons or hobby policemen either, demonstrates that many archaeologists have a severely deficient understanding of scholarship and society. Not only is the witticism demonstrably false and based on a serious logical category error, but serves, exclusively, the purpose to assume power by illicit means. This power, on top of everything, we then abuse to violate the fundamental civil and human right of freedom of research of all other citizens; a right that we not only claim for us, but that is essential for the very functioning of academic scholarship. In addition, it also demonstrates that our discipline and indeed a significant percentage of archaeologists harbour a serious inferiority complex. In this contribution, I demonstrate why we must resist this if we do not want to repeat the mistakes of our disciplinary ancestors during and since the 3rd Reich.

AB - The popular archaeological witticism that there can’t be hobby archaeologists, since there are no hobby surgeons or hobby policemen either, demonstrates that many archaeologists have a severely deficient understanding of scholarship and society. Not only is the witticism demonstrably false and based on a serious logical category error, but serves, exclusively, the purpose to assume power by illicit means. This power, on top of everything, we then abuse to violate the fundamental civil and human right of freedom of research of all other citizens; a right that we not only claim for us, but that is essential for the very functioning of academic scholarship. In addition, it also demonstrates that our discipline and indeed a significant percentage of archaeologists harbour a serious inferiority complex. In this contribution, I demonstrate why we must resist this if we do not want to repeat the mistakes of our disciplinary ancestors during and since the 3rd Reich.

KW - ARCHAEOLOGY

KW - Heritage management

KW - heritage law

KW - amateur archaeology

KW - public participation

KW - community archaeology

KW - Understanding of scholarship

KW - Human rights

KW - Civil rights

KW - Academic freedom

KW - Totalitarianism

U2 - 10.11588/ai.2017.1.42465

DO - 10.11588/ai.2017.1.42465

M3 - Erthygl

VL - 40

SP - 73

EP - 86

JO - Archäologische Informationen

JF - Archäologische Informationen

SN - 0341-2873

ER -