History Flashcards
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it is the interpretative and imaginative study of surviving records of the past, either written or unwritten, in order to determine the meaning and scope of human existence.
history
greek word of history that means knowledge or inquiry
historia
german word which is derived from geschehen, meaning to happen
Geshchichte
greek word of history that means learning
historie
A narrative of what happened that has been systematically accounted for or a systematic account of past events.
The study of the past, encompassing every dimension of human experience – social life, the economy, culture, thought, and politics (CMO 16. S., 2010)
History
Rooted in two words salaysay, which means a narrative or a story and, more important, saysay or meaning.
Kasaysayan
according to him “Isang salaysay na may saysay sa mga taong nagsasalaysay o isang salaysay hinggil sa nakaraan na may saysay para sa sinasalaysayang pangkat ng tao o salinlahi.”
Navarro
his contribution to the definition of history is couched on his theoretical framework of Pantayong Pananaw (PP).
Salazar
it is Only where relics of human happenings can be found – a potsherd, a coin, a ruin, a manuscript, a book, a portrait, a stamp, a piece of wreckage, a strand of hair, or other archeological or anthropological remains
Artifacts
it is the surviving part of the recorded part of the remembered part of the observed part of that whole.
history-as-record
it is The whole history of the past
history-as-actuality
The process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past is here called historical method.
Historical method
The imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process is called historiography (the writing of history).
Historiography
Sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past.
Relics or remains.
Testimonies of witnesses
Materials from which the historians construct meaning.
Provides evidence about the existence of an event.
Historical Data
(1) the selection of a subject for investigation
(2) the collection of probable sources of information on the subject;
(3) the examination of those sources for genuineness (either in whole or in part); and
(4) the extraction of credible particulars from the sources (or parts of sources) proved genuine
Historical Analysis
Offer researchers a clue about the past
Artifacts can be found where relics of human happenings can be found, e.g., a coin, a ruin, a manuscripts, a book, a portrait, a stamp, a piece of wreckage, a strand of hair, or other archeological or anthropological remains.
Relics or Remains
- recovered at Chamber A of Manunggul Cave in Palawan.
- an elaborately designed burial jar with anthropomorphic figures on top of the cover that represent souls sailing to the afterworld in a death boat.
- It is dated to as early as 710 - 890 B.C. The Manunggul jar was declared a National Cultural Treasure.
The Manunggul Jar
The latest discovery of what is now considered the oldest human fossil remains found in the Philippines. Discovered in 2007 at the Callao Caves in Penablanca, Cagayan Valley.
Photo shows the remains of the foot bone found in the cave excavations.
Callao Man (67,000 years old)
Excavated by Dr. Robert Fox in 1958, the burial site of Calatagan yielded 505 burials and 521 associated ceramics, porcelains and stoneware jars from China, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as hundreds of local earthenware and iron tools.
The Asian tradeware ceramics of the site date to the early to mid-Ming Dynasty (14th-15th centuries AD).
Calatagan, Batangas
Oral or written
created to serve as records
Historians deals with the dynamics (the becoming)as well as the static (the being) and aims at being interpretative (explaining why and how things happened and were interrelated) as well as descriptive (telling what happened, when and where, and who took part)
Testimonies of witnesses
Chronicles or tracts presented in narrative form, written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely.
A newspaper article might be intended to shaped opinion; to so-called ego document or personal narrative such as diary or memoir.
Narrative or literature
Those which document/record an existing legal situation or create a new one, and it is these kinds of sources that professional historians treated as the “best” source.
A legal documents is usually sealed or authenticated to provide evidence that a legal transaction has been completed and can be used as evidence in a judicial proceedings in case of dispute
Diplomatic sources
Information pertaining for economic, social, political, or judicial significance.
They are records kept by bureaucracies.
Example. Government reports, such as municipal accounts, research findings, and documents like civil registry records, property register, and records of census.
Social documents
One of the most important unwritten evidences.
Artistic creations such as pottery, jewelry, dwellings, graves, churches, roads, and other that tell a story about the past.
Provide valuable information to historians.
Material evidence “archeological evidence”