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    Making Sense of The Past:: Historical Interpretation

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    The document discusses historical interpretation and how historians analyze fragmented evidence from the past. It notes that historical judgments are not factual, but are interpretations based on available evidence. The challenges of historical interpretation are outlined, including how to critically evaluate competing accounts and interpretations from different perspectives to develop a reliable understanding of the past. Multiperspectivity, or considering multiple viewpoints, is important to offset biases and allow for a more comprehensive analysis.

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    The document discusses historical interpretation and how historians analyze fragmented evidence from the past. It notes that historical judgments are not factual, but are interpretations based on available evidence. The challenges of historical interpretation are outlined, including how to critically evaluate competing accounts and interpretations from different perspectives to develop a reliable understanding of the past. Multiperspectivity, or considering multiple viewpoints, is important to offset biases and allow for a more comprehensive analysis.

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    The document discusses historical interpretation and how historians analyze fragmented evidence from the past. It notes that historical judgments are not factual, but are interpretations based on available evidence. The challenges of historical interpretation are outlined, including how to critically evaluate competing accounts and interpretations from different perspectives to develop a reliable understanding of the past. Multiperspectivity, or considering multiple viewpoints, is important to offset biases and allow for a more comprehensive analysis.

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    Making Sense of The Past:: Historical Interpretation

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    Making Sense of the Past:

    Historical Interpretation
    RACHEL ANN M. SURLA
    CONTEMPORARY
    DEFINITION
    HISTORY- its more on how it impacts the present
    through its consequences.

    Geoffrey Barraclough- study of history on the basis of


    fragmentary evidence.
    - history is what we read, though based on facts is NOT FACTUAL AT
    ALL---- rather a series of accepted judgments.
    - HISTORICAL JUDGMENTS of historians as to how history should be
    seen is the BASIS OF HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION.
    CODE OF KALANTIAW
    BEFORE PRESENT
    Source of pride of - Considered a HOAX
    AKLAN (a historical (1968) by William
    marker in Batan, Aklan Henry Scott
    was made.
    HOW TO UTILIZE FACTS?
    1. collect facts from primary
    sources
    2. draw reading so that intended
    audience will understand the
    historical event.
    ISSUE AS TO UTILIZATION OF
    FACTS
    -not all primary sources are accessible to a
    general audience, and without the proper
    training and background, A NON-HISTORIAN
    interpreting a primary source may do more
    harm than good---a primary source may
    even cause misunderstandings.
    INTERPRETATIONS OF
    THE PAST
    - vary according to
    who reads the primary
    source, when, and
    how it was read.
    So, what’s the challenge on our
    part?
    1. we must be well equipped to recognize
    different types of interpretations.
    2. Why these interpretations may differ from
    each other
    3. How to critically sift these interpretations
    through HISTORICAL EVALUATION.
    HOW TO TRACK CHANGES
    TO UNDERSTAND THE
    PAST?
    Let’s do HISTORICAL
    EVALUATION!
    THINK-PAIR-SHARE
    SA AKING MGA KABABATA by Jose Rizal

    “Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita/ mahigit


    sa hayop at malansang isda.”
    HISTORY AS A CONSTRUCT
    Things in the past that are true but are considered today
    as no longer true.
    This will give us the idea that HISTORY IS SUBJECT TO
    INTERPRETATION.

    What will you do with competing accounts of the past?


    CONCLUSION:
    Competing accounts can impact our view of history and
    our identity. This needs our attention.
    It is important to do EVALUATION and not to limit it to
    primary sources.
    It is important to EVALUATE historical interpretations
    PURPOSE: to ensure that the current interpretation is
    reliable to support our acceptance of events of the past.
    MULTIPERSPECTIVITY
    This is a way of looking
    at events, personalities,
    developments,
    cultures, and societies
    from different
    perspectives.
    HISTORICAL WRITING
    Is biased, partial, and contains pre-
    conceptions.
    Historian decides on what sources to use
    What interpretation to make more
    apparent, depending on what his end is…
    Let’s critique historical
    writing…
    What’s is wrong when
    historians look at the evidence?
    What’s wrong when
    historians look at the subject?
    So, what’s the role now of
    multiperspectivity?
    1. We will understand that historical interpretations contain
    discrepancies, contradictions, ambiguities, and are often
    the focus of dissent.
    2. Multiperspectivity requires incorporating materials that
    reflect different views of an event in history--- so it means
    there’s a lot more room to investigate. Thereby providing
    for more evidence for those truths that the sources agree
    on.
    So, what’s the role now of
    multiperspectivity?
    1. It renders more validity to the historical
    scholarship.
    2. It provides for the audience a more complex,
    but also a more complete and richer
    understanding of the past.

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