In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives.
No, biographers is correct!
You let yourself be fooled by the analogy in the text. The thing that is being picked apart is LIKE a dead animal - but it is in fact the past!
And the people who are picking the past apart call themselves historians and biographers!
Haha, I didn't let myself be fooled by the analogy of the text, the choice for biologist has nothing to do with dead animals, instead biologist are people who examine evolution, etc. which is also a part of history.
Ok, she didn't make a fault, but still I think it is weird =)