historian은 역사학자가 아닌 역사가란 의미이며 역사학자는 academic historians라고 함

역사가는 이야기꾼 같은 개념임

그런데 국내에서 역사학 박사학위 받은 인간들을 포함해서 historian과 academic historians를 구분없이 "역사학자"라고 부르면서 비학술적인 주장과 학술적인 주장의경계를 일부러 모호하게 하더라


Professionals do well to apply the term "amateur" with caution to the historian outside their ranks. The word does have deprecatory and patronizing connotations that occasionally backfire. This is especially true of narrative history, which nonprofessionals have all but taken over. The gradual withering of the narrative impulse in favor of the analytical urge among professional academic historians has resulted in a virtual abdication of the oldest and most honored role of the historian, that of storyteller. Having abdicated... the professional is in a poor position to patronize amateurs who fulfill the needed function he has abandoned.


C. Vann Woodward, "The Great American Butchery," New York Review of Books (March 6, 1975)

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