CMN 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Institute Of Historical Research
5 Dec 2017
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Chapter 9 social historical research and oral traditions. Understand historical nature of phenomena, events, people, agencies and institutions. Historiography: systematic reconstruction of the past. Primary sources: oral or written testimony of eyewitnesses, documents, photographs, recordings, diaries. Secondary sources: oral or written testimony of people not immediately present, textbooks, oral histories, newspaper stories. Tertiary sources: presentation or collection of primary or secondary sources, almanacs, bibliographies, encyclopedias. Narrative access to real-life experiences and memories. Internet archive: seeks to identify and archive historical web pages. In the case of the first nations peoples in canada, we can better understand the current issues and concerns of the first nations peoples through the examination of the oral histories of the different groups. We can examine the historiography of first nations groups and this will help deconstruct also the history of canada and the present dynamics.
