HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tristes Tropiques, Zadig, Orality
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Interrogaion of assumpions and biases academic historians have when they study and write about the history of non-western peoples. Quesion how historians write history and how we train students to read and write history. Explore relaionships between academic and broader cultural representaions of the past. It is against these broader view that we bring to everything else we do, including studying history. Think about normaive basis of historical knowledge. One guy argued that there are 3 french revoluions. Didn"t know they were staring revoluion when they stormed the basille. And then most people in france at the ime didn"t speak french. So yeah you can like look at things diferently. Facts that you think are certain aren"t necessarily so. We"re looking at it in retrospect-> we know the outcome. Don"t believe it unless you can prove it. How do we, as historians, do history? (cid:1) (cid:1) Relaionship between oral and writen, orality and literacy.
