LESSON 1 Flashcards
A Introduction to History: Definition, Sources, Methodology And Significance
The “mother” of all disciplines in the field
of the social sciences.
History
The “chronological record of past
significant events”
History
3 approaches to doing
historiography,
(1) history from above, (2) history from below
and the (3) pantayong pananaw.
regarded as a matter of what the
powerful, the ruling class, the famous, the colonizers, and the
wealthy people thought of and what they did,
History from above
history of ordinary people
History from Below
it is focused on writing the development of the
Filipinos alone.
Pantayong Pananaw
The importance of the pantayong
pananaw
is that the story of the
Filipinos is interpreted by them, based
on their knowledge of their culture and
national heritage, and written by them.
refers to the writing of history using any of
the approaches briefly defined and discussed above.
HISTORIOGRAPHY
may include many classifications: ordinances, letters, written laws,
statutes, resolutions, personal data, or testimonies of witnesses to that past, etc.
Documents
could be buildings, ruins, churches, temples, etc. Artifacts come in
the form of such items as eating implements, cooking devices, kitchen
utensils, work implements, work animals (in the form of fossils) and others.
relics
could come in the form of oral
history wherein a historian interviews face-to-face a person who may
either be a participant to a past event, or he had witnessed first-hand
a particular activity that had bearing to meaningful one.
Testimonies of witnesses to the past
“the oral and written reports that describe an
event”
testimonies
Historians do not usually involved in the events that they are
investigating hence they rely mainly on the __________ (such as _______)
that survived through times to reconstruct the past.
evidence, records
historians have to verify sources, date them, locate their place of origin
and identify their intended functions.
HISTORICAL METHOD
objects from the past or testimonies concerning
the past on which historians depend in order to create their own
depiction of that past
Historical Source