Editing Cultural bias (section)

==History==
Cultural bias may also arise in historical scholarship when the standards, assumptions and conventions of the historian's own era are [[anachronism|anachronistically]] used to report and to assess events of the past. The tendency is sometimes known as [[Presentism (historical analysis)|presentism]], and is regarded by many historians as a fault to be avoided.<ref>{{cite book |first=David H. |last=Fischer |author-link=David Hackett Fischer |title=Historians' Fallacies: toward a logic of historical thought |url=https://archive.org/details/historiansfallac00fisc |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Harper & Row |year=1970 |isbn=978-0061315459 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historiansfallac00fisc/page/137 137–9] }}</ref> [[Arthur Marwick]] has argued that "a grasp of the fact that past societies are very different from our own, and... very difficult to get to know" is an essential and fundamental skill of the professional historian; and that "anachronism is still one of the most obvious faults when the unqualified (those expert in other disciplines, perhaps) attempt to do history."<ref>{{cite book |first=Arthur |last=Marwick |author-link=Arthur Marwick |title=The New Nature of History: knowledge, evidence, language |place=Basingstoke |publisher=Palgrave |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-333-96447-7 |page=63}}</ref>