{"id":20,"date":"2008-02-01T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etherwave.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/01\/historians-and-wikipedia\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T18:48:00","slug":"historians-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2008\/02\/01\/historians-and-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Historians and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at an <a href=\"http:\/\/ahp.yorku.ca\/?p=299\">entry<\/a> on our neighboring Advances in the History of Psychology blog.  It has to do with a dispute over whether an article on the history of psychology over at Wikipedia should feature a large section on medieval Arabic psychology.  Clearly discussing medieval Arabic &#8220;psychology&#8221; (especially in the terms used by the writer) commits various presentist sins in the name of drawing attention to non-Western scholarship in history.  The post deftly raises questions about how well professional historians and enthusiasts&#8211;whose &#8220;historiography from below&#8221; (to use David Edgerton&#8217;s term) is valuable, but frequently analytically problematic&#8211;can get along in close quarters.  It also sort of brings up <a href=\"http:\/\/histsci.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/if-you-thought-this-blog-was-meta.html\">the point earlier made here<\/a> about the historiographical issues involved when historians of different agendas cross paths.  Interestingly, when I referred to activist historians, I was thinking academically, but the post very clearly shows where the popular and activist history trends can come together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at an entry on our neighboring Advances in the History of Psychology blog. It has to do with a dispute over whether an article on the history of psychology over at Wikipedia should feature a large section on medieval Arabic psychology. Clearly discussing medieval Arabic &#8220;psychology&#8221; (especially in the terms used by<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Historians and Wikipedia<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/2008\/02\/01\/historians-and-wikipedia\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[301,1499],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-edgerton","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rational-action.com\/etherwave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}