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History
The study and writing of history can be traced back from the Greek tradition
Historia
English word “history” derived from Greek word noun – “_____” meaning “learning” or knowing by inquiry
Herodotus
father of history
Aristotle
For ________ - history meant a systematic account of a set of natural phenomena
scientia
Latin word “______” or science came to be used more regularly to designate non-chronological systematic accounts of natural phenomena;
mankind
Now a common definition – “History” as “the past of ____”
Fortiori
“_____” – the experience of generation long dead, most of whom left no records or whose records, if they exist, have never been disturbed, is beyond the possibility of total recollection
T
T OR F
The reconstruction of the total past of mankind for the historians is totally unattainable.
Fortiori
A ____ in Latin literally means “from the stronger (argument)”. The term is used when drawing a conclusion that’s even more obvious or convincing than the one just drawn.
F - more challenging
T OR F
Thus, if teaching English grammar to native speakers is difficult, then, a fortiori, teaching English grammar to nonnative speakers will not be challenging
Worldviews
_______ are often taken to operate at a conscious level, directly accessible to articulation and discussion, as opposed to existing at a deeper, pre-conscious level
F - written
T OR F
History from Greek, historia, meaning (inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation) is the past as it is described by oral documents, and the study thereof
Prehistory
Events occurring before written records
History
umbrella term that related to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events
F - academic
T OR F
History also includes the scientific discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyze a sequence of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them
T
T OR F
Sometimes objects like ruins and other artifacts survive from the past, otherwise, the facts of history are derived from testimony and therefore are facts of meaning
Subjective
They exist only in observer’s or historian’s mind
inferior
There is a prejudice against “subjective” knowledge as _____ to “objective” knowledge, largely because the word “subjective” has also come to mean “illusory” or “based upon personal considerations”, hence either “untrue” or “biased”
objective
To become ______, an object or thing must have an independent existence outside of the human mind
Recollections
______, however, do not have existence outside the human mind; and most of history is based upon recollections - that is, written or spoken testimony
Artifacts
Results of events
Written Documents
Results of the records of events
interpretative, descriptive
The historian aims at being ______ (explaining why and how things happened and were interrelated) as well as ______ (telling what happened, when and where, and who took part).
T
T OR F
A historian tries to get as close an approximation to the truth about the past as constant correction of his mental images will allow, at the same time, recognizing that the truth has in fact eluded him forever
verisimilar
The historian’s responsibility shifts to that of re-creating a _____ image of as much of the past as the evidence makes recoverable
F - cannot
T OR F
There’s a recognition that in a sense, history can be reconstructed.
history-as-actuality
The historian can grasp of the ______, no matter how real it may have seemed while it was happening, can be nothing more than a mental image or a series of mental images based upon an application of his own experience
dynamic, static
The historian deals with the _____ (the becoming) as well as the _____ (the being or the become)
Historical method
the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past.
Historiography
the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process
T
T OR F
Both historical method and historiography helps historians to reconstruct as much of the past of mankind as they can
T
T OR F
The historian must be sure that his records really come from the past and that his imagination is directed toward re-creation and not creation. These limits distinguish history from fiction, poetry, drama and fantasy
primary, secondary
Written and oral sources are divided into two kinds: ___ and ____
Primary Source
testimony of an eyewitness, or of a witness by any other of the senses, or of a mechanical device
F - does not
T OR F
A primary source needs to be original
Secondary Source
testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness – that is, of one who was not present at the events of which he tells
Primary Source
Main text or work that you are discussing, actual data or research results, or historical documents; first-hand testimony
Secondary Source
Records generated by an event but written by non-participants in the event. Based on/derived from primary sources- but they have been interpreted or analyzed.
Original
a word of so many different meanings that it would have been better to avoid it in precise historical discourse; it can be, and frequently is, used to denote five different conditions of a document, all of which are important to the historian
a. fresh and creative ideas
b. not translated
c. earliest, unpolished stage
d. unmodified and untampered with
e. earliest available source
A document may be called “original”
T
T OR F
It should be remembered that the historian when analyzing sources is interested chiefly in particulars and that he asks particularly whether it is based on first-hand or second-hand testimony.
Document
It is sometimes used to mean a written source of historical information as contrasted with oral testimony or with artifacts, pictorial survivals, and archaeological remains
Documentation
signifies any process of proof based upon any kind of source whether written, oral, pictorial or archaeological
Human document
defined as “account of individual experience which reveals the individual’s actions as a human agent and as a participant in social life”
Personal Document
defined as “any self-revealing record that intentionally or unintentionally yields information regarding the structure, dynamics and functioning of the author’s mental life”
Narrative or story
account of a series of related events, experiences, or the like, whether true (episode, vignette, travelogue, memoir, autobiography, biography) or fictitious (fairy tale, fable, story, epic, legend, novel)
Narrative
found in all forms of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature, theatre, music and song, comics, journalism, film, television and video, video games, radio, game-play, unstructured recreation, and performance in general, as well as some painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and other visual arts, as long as sequence of events is presented
Metanarrative
a narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience, or knowledge, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea
Worldview, world-view
fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual’s or society’s knowledge and point of view
Laguna Copperplate Inscription
legal document inscribed on a copper plate in 900 CE, is the earliest known calendar-dated document found in the Philippines
Balitung
The date of the inscription would make it contemporary to the _____ kingdom of Central Java, although it necessarily did not originate from that area
Antoon Postma
The inscription, written in a mix of the Old Malay language using the Old Kawi script, was first deciphered by Dutch anthropologist and Hanuno’o script expert ____ ____ in 1992
Pasig River
The LCI documents the existence of several early Philippine polities was early as AD 900, most notably the ___ ____ delta polity (meaning: an organized society; a state as a political entity) of Tondo
Medang
Scholars believe that it also indicates trade, cultural, and possibly political ties between these polities and at least one contemporaneous Asian civilization - the _____ Kingdom of the island of Java
Kawi Script
The inscription was written in ___ ____- a writing system developed in Java, and using a mixture of languages including Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and Old Malay. This was a rare trace of Javanese influence, which suggests the extent of interinsular (existing or occurring between islands) exchanges of that time
April 21 900
It records the date as the year 822 of the Saka era, the month of Waisaka, and the fourth day of the waning moon, which corresponds to Monday, ___ ___ _____ on the Julian calendar
Sanskrit Words
used for technical terms
Javanese Words
used for forms of address
Old Malay
uses differs from examples found in Java and Sumatra
Namwaran
The document states that it releases its bearers, the children of _______, from a debt in gold amounting to 1 kati and 8 suwarnas (865 grams; 27.8 troy ounces)
UST Baybayin documents
Two 17th century land deeds written in baybayin, an ancient Philippine Syllabary; Involvement of women in buying and selling of lands
UST Baybayin documents
Oldest Paper Document in the Philippines; This is an evidence that Filipinos are already using paper prior to the coming of Magellan and the Spaniards
Manunggul Jar
Secondary burial jar excavated from the neolithic burial site in the Manunggul cave of the Tabon cave
Manunggul Jar
Two prominent figures at the top handle of its cover represent the journey of the soul to the afterlife
Glenn May
He doubted this: ‘inventing a hero: the posthumous re-creation of Andres Bonifacio’
Laypagasa
Andres Bonifacio’s code name
Sociopolitical History
What kind of history is concentrated in the PH History?
Parisian Life
obra maestra ni Juan Luna na nagpapakita ng isang babaeng pranses habang pinag-uusapan ng tatlong lalaki sa loob ng isang kapihan sa Paris
The Maid
Kilala ito sa tawag na ‘____’
Marcelo H. Del Pilar
first choice to be national hero, but he died of TB (not as “dramatic” as Jose Rizal’s death)
Authentic
Everything must be original (all elements being all original); wholly original
Multinational
specific headquarters in a region
Transnational
no headquarters in a region in which they operate; operates through a distributor
Photographs
Old Sketches and Drawings
Old Maps
Cartoons
Material Evidence
Statistical tables
Oral history
Primary document/s
Eight examples of primary sources
Date
Localization
Authorship
Analysis
Integrity
Credibility
Garraghan (1950) identified six points of inquiries regarding the authenticity of a primary source:
Maragtas
The story of Datu Kalantiaw is often assumed to be just one of the legends contained in an ancient and mysterious document called the ______
Pedro Montecarlo
However, the Maragtas was actually just a book written in 1907 by ____ _____ in which he compiled the local legends of the Visayas from mainly oral tradition and a few written documents that were fairly modern in their origins
Jose Marco
Who really wrote the Code of Kalantiaw?
Kalantiaw
20th century filipino students were taught about the vicious and bizarre laws that were said to have been enacted by one Datu _____ in the year 1433 on the island of Panay
Forged Documents
Forgeries of documents in whole or in part without being usual, are common enough to keep the careful historian constantly in guard
Historical Documents are fabricated
Bolster a false claim or title
Less mercenary considerations (political propaganda)
Sometimes quite genuine document are intended to mislead certain contemporaries and hence, have misled subsequent historians
Oswald Iten
The scandal broke after Swiss journalist ____ ____ revisited the Tasaday in 1986 and found the tribe living in houses and wearing regular clothes.
The Gentle Tasaday
“He forced us to live in caves”; an orchestration to distract the people from the martial law
Manuel Elizalde Jr.
Members of the clan alleged to Iten that they had been bribed into wearing leaves and living in caves by the very man appointed to protect them- Marcos crony and aspiring politician ___ ___ ___