[Hellsgate] Job titles (was: Yule Brewing)
Chris Zakes
dontivar at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 18:22:06 PDT 2012
At 12:57 PM 9/24/2012, you wrote:
>Autocrat/Steward same thing
>Keyna
Well... yes and no. In the SCA, the terms are pretty much
interchangable, but "steward" is a little more historically accurate.
Story time, childrren!
While setting up the SCA's second event, Marion Zimmer Bradley (yes,
the science fiction author) was filling out a form to reserve a park
in San Francisco and one of the questions on the form was "Title."
The first thing that popped into her head was "autocrat" so that's
what she put down, and the name stuck. (One of the earlier questions
on that form was "name of organization", and that's where "Society
for Creative Anachronism" comes from.)
Since then, tacking -ocrat onto any SCA-related job has become pretty common.
Twenty or twenty-five years ago (at least in Ansteorra) people
started pushing for more historically accurate names: event steward
instead of autocrat, head cook or feast steward instead of
feastocrat, gate instead of troll, privy instead of Shrine of St.
John of the Swirling Waters, etc.
Nowadays some folks use the historically accurate names, some folks
use the "traditional" names. It's pretty much a matter of personal
preference. If you look through the event announcements in the
Kingdom Calendar http://calendar.ansteorra.org/ or Black Star, you'll
see that both terms are used.
-Tivar Moondragon
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