Week 3 RPH Document PDF

**Other methods of criticisms:** ***Positivism** -- no document, no history**.*** They are required to show written primary written documents. ***Post Colonialism*** - a movement and field of study that emerged in the 20th century, focusing on how nations and peoples who were once colonized dealt...

**Other methods of criticisms:** ***Positivism** -- no document, no history**.*** They are required to show written primary written documents. ***Post Colonialism*** - a movement and field of study that emerged in the 20th century, focusing on how nations and peoples who were once colonized dealt with two major challenges: **establishing their own unique cultural identity** and **making sense of their society after gaining independence.** These nations had to figure out who they were and how to move forward while still dealing with the lasting effects and influence of their colonial history. ***Annales School of Thought** --* history should not only be concerned of states and monarchs. **P*antayong Pananaw*** *--* highlights the importance of facilitating an internal conversation and discourse among Filipinos about our own history. **PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES** **Primary Sources** +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Research Field** | **Primary Sources** | +===================================+===================================+ | History | - Letters and Diaries | | | | | | - Photographs and Video Footage | | | | | | - Official documents and | | | records | | | | | | - Physical objects | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Art and Literature** | - Novels and poems | | | | | | - Paintings and art | | | installations | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Communication and Social | - Interview transcripts | | Studies** | | | | - Recordings of speeches | | | | | | - Newspapers and magazine | | | | | | - Social media posts | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | **Law and Politics** | - Court records | | | | | | - Legal texts | | | | | | - Statistical data | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | | | +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ **Secondary Source** - Is anything that describes, interprets, evaluates, or analyzes information from primary sources **Examples**: - Books, articles and documentaries that synthesize information on a topic - Snyopses and descriptions - Encylopedias and textbooks - Reviews and essays that evaluate or interpret something Note: When citing a secondary source, you'll probably test its arguments against new evidence or use its ideas to help formulate your own. ***Questions you can ask yourself in determining a source if it is primary or secondary:*** - Does this source come from someone **directly involved** in the events I'm studying or **from another researcher** - Am I interested in **analyzing the source itself** or only using it for **background information**? - Does the source **provide original information** or does it **comment upon information upon information from other sources**? Distinctions between **Primary Source and Secondary Source** **Primary** **Secondary** ----------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- Novel Article analyzing the novel Painting Exhibition catalog explaining the painting Photographs of a historical event Documentary about the historical event Empirical study Literature review that cites the study **Repositories of Primary Sources** - **National Archives of the Philippines** - Home of about 60 million documents from the centuries of the Spanish rule up to the years of the Republic. - Also the final repository for the voluminous notarized documents of the country. - **National Library of the Philippines** - Repository of the printed and recorded cultural heritage of the country and other intellectual, literary and information sources. - Conserve and preserve Filipiniana materials and provide equitable access to library resources through a system of public libraries throughout the country. - **National Historical Commission of the Philippines** - Virtue of RA 10086 -- formerly **Nomenclature of the National Historical Institute** - Responsible for the conservation and preservation of the country's historical legacis. - Five divisions: *Finance and Administrative; Historic Preservation; Historic Sites and Education; Research; Publications and Heraldry; and Materials Research Conservation.* - **National Museum of the Philippines** - A Trust of the Government - Educational, scientific, and cultural institution that acquires, documents, preserves, exhibits, and fosters scholarly study and public appreciation of works of art, specimens, and cultural and historical artifacts representative of our unique to the cultural heritage of the Filipino people and the natural history of the Philippines. - Manages and develops the national reference collections in the areas of cultural heritage.