Ext. History Revision History- What historians chose to interpret from the surviving evidence of the past Source + Historians = Histories All historians have their own views and interests due to their upbringing hence that the process of selection and interpretation distorts our ‘knowledge’ further. Issues in historiography Training of historians Objectivity in history Oral societies and history Problems of historical research Universal history Evidence- selection Source- How? Truth-
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Motivated by ideas and disciplines not readily associated with fashion‚ their designs cross between architecture‚ design‚ philosophy‚ anthropology‚ science and technology.( Shad Thames‚2010) Both challenge the variety and use of materials. Hussein has even used plastic and wood for his ‘furniture” collection‚ and McQueen used sellotape for his “The Birds” collection conceptualizing road
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Sources of african history A source of history can be divided into two big groups‚ remnants and storytelling which usually are called primary and secondary sources. The primary sources‚ remnants and written documents are counted as more reliable than the oral history. African history has been a challenge for researchers because of scarce written sources in many regions‚ especially sub – Saharan Africa. Prejudice against black Africans in particular‚ which goes far back in history‚ has meant that
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larger than photography. Social communication is one of the defining characteristics of being human‚ and narrative stories have long been a common and powerful mode for transmitting information. As such‚ there is much we can learn from the likes of anthropology‚ history and literary theory. Here I want to lay out some of the points I discussed yesterday in a lecture to Jonathan Worth’s innovative class on photography and narrative at Coventry (you can listen to the lecture via the #Phonar site – it
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	Zora Neale Hurston was an astounding Afro-American author who was recognized not for being the first Afro-American writer‚ but rather for her ability to bring forth her cultural language and imagery. If not for Zora’s pioneering effort as a female black writer‚ the world of modern literature would have never seen the cultural insights of the African American culture in such a candid way. 	Zora’s date of birth is said to be in January of 1891‚ however her actual date of birth is debated today
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south‚ but she traveled throughout the South and in the West Indies as an anthropologist collecting folk materials independently with funding from private patrons or fellowships‚ as a doctoral student wording under Franz Boas‚ father of American anthropology (Cataliotti‚ 1995:100). She has been primarily interested in collecting the folk songs and sayings of her people. In one way or another‚ most of Hurston’s major works stem from her anthropological interests and fieldwork collections. For
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Idiom of Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston‚ scholar‚ novelists‚ folklorist‚ and anthropologist‚ was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her writing career elaborated the rich black vernacular from her southern upbringing and also of her anthropology training from the prestigious Barnard College (Slawson 209). Hurston grew up in Eatonville‚ Florida. It was one of the first all-black towns to be formed after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863‚ and is thought to heavily influence and inspire
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Linguistic discourse analysis 1.1Defining discourse Discourse is the creation and organization of the segments of a language above as well as below the sentence. It is segments of language which may be bigger or smaller than a single sentence but the adduced meaning is always beyond the sentence. The term discourse applies to both spoken and written language‚ in fact to any sample of language used for any purpose. Any series of speech events or any combination of sentences in written form wherein
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Women writers use their personal lives as stimulus when writing works of fiction. As seen in the classic author Charlotte Brontë and her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and also for the contemporary author Kathy Reichs. While Jane Eyre is a novel telling the life story of its title character‚ it is mostly based upon aspects of Brontë’s life. Kathy Reich’s uses her life and personally traits to develop the main character and her life in her novels as well. There are a few reasons why women use this technique
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the most prominent works in epic fantasy in recent times. Steven Erikson was born in Ontario but spent most of his childhood in Winnipeg before he moves to the UK with his family and finally resettled back in Winnipeg. He studies archaeology and anthropology in college and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop. His very first work in
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