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    The document discusses different types of historical sources that historians use to understand the past. It defines primary sources as artifacts or documents created during the time period being studied, and secondary sources as later analyses and interpretations of primary sources. The key types of sources discussed are written sources like narratives, diplomatic documents, and records, as well as unwritten sources like archaeological evidence and oral histories. Historians must carefully distinguish between information taken directly from sources and their own interpretations in order to understand the past accurately based on reliable evidence from the time period.

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    Sources of history

    From the reading:


    Howell, M. C., & Prevenier, W. (2001). From reliable sources: An introduction to historical
    methods.

    discussed by: Dr. Angela chamos-Tenorio, lpt


    All photos used in this presentation are taken from the net
    Learning objectives

    • At the end of this unit, the students must be able to :


    • Define the meaning and relevance of history and
    differentiate between primary and secondary sources;
    written and unwritten sources; external and internal
    analysis.
    WHAT IS A (Historical) SOURCE
    “Sources are artifacts that have been left by the past”. They may be regarded
    as relics or remains of the past simply because they exist.

    the Golden Tara or the


    Agusan image found in
    1917at Agusan del Sur. It is
    a 21 karat gold statuette
    dating between the 9th
    and 10th centuries. It is
    currently housed in the
    Field Museum of Natural
    History in Chicago.
    What is the relationship of the historian to
    the source?
    Sources are the materials from which historians construct meanings
    but such sources must be read within the historiographical contexts.
    “ A source is an object from the past or testimony concerning the past
    on which historians depend in order to create their own depiction of
    the past” (Howell and Pevenier 2001).

    The outcome?
    HISTORICAL WORK OR HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
    To illustrate further

    SOURCE

    HISTORICAL
    INTERRETATION
    A word of caution…
    “It is thus one of the primary responsibilities of the historian to
    distinguish carefully for reader between information that comes
    literally out of the source itself (in footnotes or by some other means)
    and that which is a personal interpretation of the material”. (Howell
    and Prevenier, 2001)

    This photo is just for comic relief.


    Source TYPOLOGIES
    PRIMARY SOURCES
    SECONDARY SOURCES

    WRITTEN SOURCES
    UNWRITTEN SOURCE
    WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF WRITTEN SOURCES?

    1. NARRATIVE/ LITERARY SOURCES - They were written to impart a message


    EXAMPLES: CHRONICLES, SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, EGO
    DOCUMENTS, NOVEL, FILM

    2. DIPLOMATIC SOURCES – They were written to document an existing legal


    situation or create a new one.
    These are regarded by professional historians as the purest and best source
    EXAMPLES: LAW-GIVING, JUDGEMENTS, CONTRACTS , LICENSES

    3. SOCIAL DOCUMENTS - documents for record keeping


    EXAMPLES: reports, civil registries, tax rolls
    WHAT ARE UNWRITTEN SOURCES
    - MATERIAL OR ORAL SOURCE
    EXAMPLES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCES

    *ORAL SOURCES ARE IN THE FORM OF TALES AND SAGAS OF ANCIENT


    PEOPLES
    EXAMPLES: SPEECHES

    * MOST HAVE BEEN PRESERVED THROUGH RECORDING , WHILE SOME


    HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO “WRITTEN” SOURCES.
    ADDITIONAL NOTES
    In the study of history as an academic discipline, a primary
    source (also called an original source or evidence) is an artifact,
    document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, recording, or any
    other source of information that was created at the time under
    study.

    Sreedharan believes that primary sources have the most direct


    connection to the past and that they "speak for themselves" in
    ways that cannot be captured through the filter of secondary
    sources.

    ---Sreedharan, E. (2004). A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000.


    Orient Longman. p. 302. ISBN 81-250-2657-6.
    Are quotes primary sources?
    ▪ NO
    • They have been removed from the original document by
    someone else.
    • FIND THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENT

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