Fragment from
Silberman, Neil Asher. “Help Wanted: Choosing an Alternative or Mainstream Archaeological Career?”
Journal of Eastern Mediterranian Archaeology and Heitage Studies 3, no. 3 (2015): 306–12. doi:10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.3.3.0306. [http://www.jstor.org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/stable/10.5325/jeasmedarcherstu.3.3.0306]
Through the 1980s and 1990s, I published a series of books and articles
on the politics and hidden ideologies of archaeology. To some proper
academic archaeologists that made me a “journalist,” to others, a
“historian of archaeology,” and to others who held an especially
reverent attitude toward the academic discipline, some kind of an agent
provocateur. “You are doing a lot of damage,” a well-known publisher of a
biblical archaeology magazine once told me. The wife of an
up-and-coming scholar chastised me for not being respectful of real
archaeologists. And so it went. Journalists assumed I was not one of
them but an archaeologist, while archaeologists saw me as some sort of
unconventional hanger-on.
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