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unleash your humanities (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Humanities don't need funding for expensive laboratories

i suppose so as long as all your humanities knowledge is already solved with no need to travel to new places, study new locations, or talk to new people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

According to wikipedia, humanities neither include archeology nor sociology:

The humanities include the academic study of philosophy, religion, history, language arts (literature, writing, oratory, rhetoric, poetry, etc.), the performing arts (theater, music, dance, etc.), and the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, etc.)

There is no need to travel. The people who research are either there or can be reached via internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

the pama-nyungan language family is indigenous to Australia and all the languages in that umbrella are either endangered or extrinct already.

pick one:

a) it is already safely and thoroughly catalogued or reachable via the Internet

b) there's already enough embedded researchers in indigenous Australian communities to study these endangered languages

c) it's not humanities for some reason

d) probably should spend some money getting more students and professors out there to study it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's difficult to not get snarky. You obviously have studied but you argue against my position that humanities with limited funding is possible with the demand that a new university must be able to fund nieche topics. How is that necessary?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

because a humanities without "niche topics" is going to cover a very limited subject matter, and in particular, a very certain bias of subject matter! if we design humanities with cost-savings in mind, this is the most inexpensive and readily available culture, language, history: the mainstream, the corporate owned, the majority opinion. funding in humanities expands the horizons and the populace that humanities covers, and without diversity, humanities is not worth teaching

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You are arguing about the curriculum of a newly established college as if it were the research focus of the entire humanities.

Diversity doesn't come from exotic trips but the matetial you cover and the way it is taught and debated. All classic texts are freely available. For centuries that was enough.

There can be trips and such once money is available. For that you need some alumni to get donations. They will not be there if you don't start teaching which is, for humanities, possible with a minimal budget.

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