On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, N & A POWELL wrote:

+++++ [CLIP] +++++

> Excellent point. I was appalled earlier in my career to hear a PhD historian
> in a very high state position  dismiss all material culture.
>
> Apparently for this person, and for many others, what a man or woman wrote
> with their hand to express what their ideas was important. What a man or
> woman created with their hands to express their ideas and culture was
> insignificant, whether it was a tool, a textile, or an artwork.

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Nancy:

All too common.  One of the world's leading historians of geology,
Professor Hugh Torrens of the University of Keele, UK, has invented (or
re-discovered - I don't know which) the word "papyriphily" [= love of
paper] for an obsessive belief that the "only" history what's recorded on
paper!!



Patrick Boylan

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