Data Analysis - Historical Methodology PDF

This aims to examine the authenticity and reliability of sources, primarily documents, utilized in the crafting of a historical material. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science History refers to the study an...

This aims to examine the authenticity and reliability of sources, primarily documents, utilized in the crafting of a historical material. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science History refers to the study and interpretation by a historian on the data and other source of the past human activity, people, societies and civilizations leading to the present day. There are three important concepts in the definition. First history as we all know is based on past events. Second it is interpreted by someone usually by historian. They gather, discard and interpret the sources that they encounter. And finally and the most 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science This aims to examine the authenticity and reliability of sources, primarily documents, utilized in the crafting of a historical material. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science objects that have been left in the past and that exist either as relic or as testimonies of witnesses to the past 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  sources are materials from which historians construct meanings about the past 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science Historical sources are tangible remains of the past. It 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. There are three kinds of sources namely: primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Written sources Travelogue Newspaper Archival material Memoir Primary source: Numerical Records Printed numerical graph Primary source: Oral statements “My first day was a scary one. There was a patient whose earlobes were so long…he had no nose, only two holes on his face, and no fingers, only the palm of his hands…the other patients were in different stages of deformity.” Sr. Maria Luisa Montenegro, SPC 1940 Oral statement of an eyewitness to the Culion Leper Colony A person interviewing an eyewitness Primary source: Relics Artifacts (Balanginga Bells) Ruins Fossil (Callao man) Primary sources: Images Photograph (Bud Dajo Massacre) Photograph (Bud Dajo Massacre) Cartoon  Cartoon Map (Murillo Velarde map c.1734)  Relics Testimoni es 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  RELICS Artifacts, fragments, or ruins 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  RELICS Articles from daily life Artistic creations Fortifications 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  TESTIMONIE S Oral or Written 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  Written TESTIMONIES Diaries Legal Documents Novels 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  Oral TESTIMONIES Oral Traditions Songs Artistic 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science Oral sources can complement written sources and can provide us clues and links 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science Oral sources can be trusted as long as they can be verified through external evidence 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  As a mode of corroborating information, interviewing may be employed as a method in oral history but it must be handled thoroughly. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  Government Media (Traditional and Social) Academe Groups Individu als 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 1. To consider the conditions under which a source was produced. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2. To consider the intentions that motivated the creation of the source. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 3. To always bear in mind that knowledge of the first two items does not reveal everything about the source’s realibility. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 4. To read a source, pay attention to both the historical and historiographical contexts that give it meaning. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 5. To distinguish carefully for the readers between information that comes literally out of the source itself and that which is a personal interpretation 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science The historian needs to consider the intentions that motivated the creation of the source. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 1. In general, testimonies and relics are intentionally created. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2. Unintentional sources are unintentional only in the sense that they were not produced with the historian’s questions in mind. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 3. Even the most intentional of sources, however, can be unintentional, and can reveal facts that the author never thought of. 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  Learning TaskTasks Watch the YouTube channel: I-Witness: ‘Savage: Juan Luna in Paris,’ a documentary by Howie Severino and answer the following questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54R1nWALZFw&t=601s 1. What are the primary sources you encountered in the documentary? Secondary sources? Tertiary sources? 2. Why did Constancio Ongpin and Mara Pardo de Tavera had different interpretation about the same event? Based on the sources they presented who is more convincing among the two? Why? 3. Did Howie Severino presented the documentary objectively? Explain your answer.  External Criticism Internal Criticism 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science External Criticism authenticity of a source 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science Internal Criticism credibility and reliability of a source 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 1. Is the document comprehensible? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2. Who composed the historical materiaI? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 3. Is the document located in place and time? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 4. Is the source authentic? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 1. Genealogy of the Document Is the source an original, a copy of the original or a copy of a copy? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2. Genesis of a Document What kind of institution or individual produced a source, with what authority, under what circumstances? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 3. The Originality of the Document How is the document rooted from other sources? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 4. Interpretation of the Document How did the author frame the intent and meaning of a composed material? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 5. Authorial Authority With what authority does the author of a source speak? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 6. Competence of the Observer What was the psychological state of the author of the source? To what extent was the author’s report selective ? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 6. Competence of the Observer What prejudices would have informed the account? Under what outside influences was the source 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 6. Competence of the Observer Could the observer have understood what he/she saw? Was the observer technically or socially qualified to understand what he saw? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 7. The Trustworthiness of the Observer How does the author conceal or suppress knowledge to advance one’s agenda? 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 1. Paleography- study of handwriting 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2. Diplomatics- used primarily for textual analysis; writing styles maybe determined by its specific time/period wherein there is a set of writing conventions and 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  3. Archaeolog y 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  4. Statistics 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  5. Linguistics 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  6. Genealogy study of family relationships 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  7. Prosopography use of biographical material to construct group narratives 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  8. Sigillography science and art of identifying and decoding seals 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  9. Heraldry study of coats of arms 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  10. Numismatics study of coins 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science  Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier From reliable sources: an introduction to historical methods 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science 2017 UP CSSP Extramural Training Seminar for Social Science