The capacity of northern European gentlemen scholars educated in the love of wisdom, human dignity, friendship and rationality to treat their fellow human beings with irreconcilable prejudice and hold to ghastly beliefs of racial superiority, which legitimated violence, exploitation and extermination elsewhere, is one of the great tragedies of humanism. That the images of the human cultivated in texts were at variance with the lived experience of those who were treated as other than human was rarely noted in the books they read. I appreciate Matthew Greer's efforts to bring these concerns to the fore. I am grateful for the opportunity to read Sylvia Wynter, among others, and to think about their work in counter-humanism. I stand with Greer who reminds us that, as archaeologists, we must do more than critique ideologies, fight for inclusion, and engage in dialogue as demanded by a radical pluralism (Shanks & Tilley 1992, 246). Equity, social justice, openness, and decolonization demand the sustained effort of us all, both in our capacity as archaeologists and as readers of texts.

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论作为读者而奋斗：对格里尔的回应

北欧绅士学者受过热爱智慧、人类尊严、友谊和理性的教育，他们能够以不可调和的偏见对待自己的人类同胞，并坚持可怕的种族优越感，这种信念在其他地方使暴力、剥削和灭绝合法化，这是他们的能力之一。人文主义的伟大悲剧。文本中塑造的人类形象与接受治疗的人的生活经历不一致与人类以外的其他人一样他们读的书中很少提及。我感谢马修·格里尔为使这些问题浮出水面所做的努力。我很感激有机会阅读西尔维娅·温特等人的作品，并思考他们在反人道主义方面的作品。我与格里尔站在一起，他提醒我们，作为考古学家，我们必须做的不仅仅是批判意识形态、争取包容性以及按照激进多元化的要求进行对话（Shanks & Tilley 1992, 246）。公平、社会正义、开放和非殖民化需要我们所有人持续努力，无论是作为考古学家还是作为文本读者。