HON 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 79-124: Tangled
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Archives reveal specific ways social identities were expressed through representations of self and of others. Ways of viewing familiar and strange, tolerable and unacceptable. Words tell us of the way things were recognized and differentiated. Details of work situations give us both info and that which enables us to access it, or rather that which makes it coherent. Shed light on matters that range frm trivial to essential. Allow us to glimpse the structures of social networks and many ways people lived among others (pg 83) Articulate inconsistencies whose meaning is far from clear. Must be taken hold of b/c they allow historian to capture moments of extreme tension @ very heart of society (pg 86) Must take into acct the reflexes, habits, and weaknesses of the police. Invites reflection on the unique and on the historical concept of the individual (pg. Find a link btwn people anonymously submerged in history and the society that they belonged to.