Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders

Re:Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voic... by eesmith on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:26AM (#15559057)

If only we had a profession which studied different cultures so we could get some idea of what it means to "treat people as people", instead of treating others as reflection of one's own culture.

Perhaps we could call it "anthropology", from "anthropo-" for "man, people, humanity" and "-logy" for "the study of".

Then we could let anthropology researchers figure out the best way to handle these sorts of issues.

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Re:Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voic... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 26, 2017 @11:14AM (#15559565)

Sorry my culture is that those, outside my culture, with smug arguments aren't allowed to respond negatively.

Retract your comment or prove you're wrong by maintaining it.

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Also, are you saying anthropologists would never intefere or contradict a distinct cultures wishes? I know that's not true.

We should let the rich decide who pays taxes too, as they have most experience of it, no.

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Re:Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voic... by eesmith on Thursday October 26, 2017 @01:01PM (#15560785)

Since it wasn't clear, my comment was to point out that anthropologists are likely to have a better idea of what it means to "treat people as people" than you do.

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Re:Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voic... by microcolonel on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:54AM (#15559346)

> Perhaps we could call it "anthropology", from "anthropo-" for "man, people, humanity" and "-logy" for "the study of".

They might get a bit smug if we teach them a couple of Greek words.

They might start to think that their faeces are aosmic (ά- without, -οσμο odor).

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