HON 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47-48: Echoic Memory
23 Sep 2016
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Taste for archives comes frm conviction that preservation of judicial records has created a space for captured speech. Forever incomplete; so much is left unsaid. Historian is only barely capable of perceiving the reasoning of the individuals behind the archives. Bad weather has damaged archives over time. Role of intonation in speech, esp in archives, retains auditory memory of the past. Gathering and selecting shapes the object of study thru accumulation of detail. Not rare to research one topic in order to shed light on another. There will be archives that have nothing to do with your topic, that spark your interest and that"s okay! In fact, it could bring more clarity to your actual topic. Historians must break free from sympathy w/ the archives and see documents as adversaries they must do battle with. Quotations are useful, but be wary of the fact that it may be a misleading means of substituting facts where reasoning is necessary.
