HIST2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Environmental Psychology, Studs Terkel, Oral History

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10 May 2018
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Week 8 HIST Lecture Public and Personal History: words and memories
Public history:
Coined in the 1970 conservation, museum, family or community history research, film and
tv, library or galleries
All engaged in history work
Around for hundreds of years before empirical histories tried to make a new form
Social knowledge before the academic field
Non-academic historians folklorist, antiquarians
Often a very immediate, tangible but a romantic idea of the past
Books:
Defined key questions
The Past is a Foreign Country Lowenthal (environmental psychology, how they used the
past in the past)
Project romantic myths onto the past
Deial ad ottage-approah aed
Amateur history compared to academic history
Kind of underbelly of history
Theatres of Memory Samuel
Prone to theoretical methods the tea-roo iage
Measures change
Public History:
Non-academic history outside the academy
Any way, shape or form outside of the academic field
Answers the question of what is history different to the historian
Genuine sub-set of the historical practise
Pure siee – applied siee odel
Emphasis on use and utility
Undertaken collaboratively
Deals with popular and public memory
History as a social form of knowledge
Not large aspect questions
In the nature of folk memory to embellish
Bringing professional ethics to the community (usually a lot of embellishment and
misrepresentation)
Historians:
Graeme Davison The Use and Abuse of Australian History (5 phases of the prehistory, local
history making)
Pioeer, patriarhal, professioal, preseratioist, ouity, plae history
Glossy history – more important for the image of the community than the actual facts
Empowering the community in order for community to develop own sense of local
knowledge
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