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    The book The Houses of History examines twelve theoretical approaches that historians use to analyze the historical record. It provides a brief history of each approach and explains the focus of each using plain language. For each approach, it includes a well-chosen example text to illustrate it. While the description of postmodernism is slightly off, the example text helps clarify its perspective. The book helped the reviewer understand how authors apply different theoretical lenses and highlighted methods for evaluating evidence that will assist in further study. It included foundational and supplementary texts for each approach discussed.

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    The book The Houses of History examines twelve theoretical approaches that historians use to analyze the historical record. It provides a brief history of each approach and explains the focus of each using plain language. For each approach, it includes a well-chosen example text to illustrate it. While the description of postmodernism is slightly off, the example text helps clarify its perspective. The book helped the reviewer understand how authors apply different theoretical lenses and highlighted methods for evaluating evidence that will assist in further study. It included foundational and supplementary texts for each approach discussed.

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    The book The Houses of History examines twelve theoretical approaches that historians use to analyze the historical record. It provides a brief history of each approach and explains the focus of each using plain language. For each approach, it includes a well-chosen example text to illustrate it. While the description of postmodernism is slightly off, the example text helps clarify its perspective. The book helped the reviewer understand how authors apply different theoretical lenses and highlighted methods for evaluating evidence that will assist in further study. It included foundational and supplementary texts for each approach discussed.

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    The book The Houses of History examines twelve theoretical approaches that historians use to analyze the historical record. It provides a brief history of each approach and explains the focus of each using plain language. For each approach, it includes a well-chosen example text to illustrate it. While the description of postmodernism is slightly off, the example text helps clarify its perspective. The book helped the reviewer understand how authors apply different theoretical lenses and highlighted methods for evaluating evidence that will assist in further study. It included foundational and supplementary texts for each approach discussed.

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    1999, English, Book edition:The houses of history : a critical reader in twentieth-

    century history and theory / selected and introduced by Anna Green & Kathleen
    Troup, 338 p Published New York : New York University Press, 1999.

    (review by Marco Alvarez)

    Anna Green and Kathleen Troup wrote their book The Houses of History for a
    limited audience, serious history majors. The book looks at twelve houses, the
    theoretical methods that historians use to examine and evaluate the historical
    record. The authors write a short history of each house and explain in plain
    English the focus of each houses dialogue. Each explanation is followed by a
    well-chosen example from each school of thought. They are very well chosen,
    Green and Troups explanation of postmodernism is, like all descriptions I have
    seen, slightly off focus, but the text they picked as an example illuminates and
    clarifies their dialogue.

    The book was helpful for me to understand the thought processes used by
    authors of other works I have read and I wish I had found this book before my
    senior year. It demonstrated several methods of evaluating evidence that will be
    helpful in my studies. The additional readings listed at the end of each section
    included titles I had already been introduced to in class discussions as founding
    texts for that school of thought and other titles intended to further illustrate that
    house.

    CHAPTERS:

    1. The empiricists

    2. Marxist historians

    3. Freud and psychohistory

    4. The Annales

    5. Historical sociology

    6. Quantitative history

    7. Anthropology and ethnohistorians

    8. The question of narrative

    9. Oral history

    10. Gender and history

    11. Postcolonial perspectives

    12. The challenge of poststructuralism/postmodernism.


    Transcription: Houses of History: Chapter 7

    Anthropology focus on everyday life anthropology was to become immensely


    influential in redirecting historians' attention away from the public, political
    sphere of human action towards private everyday life Anthropology and
    Ethnohistorians In the second half of the 19th century there were many parallels
    between the disciplines of history and anthropology Both employed an
    empiricist methodology Historians charted the rise of nations Anthropologists
    traced the cultural and social evolution of mankind (p. 172).

    Early Anthropology From the 1860s there was a specific framework for
    anthropology: the evolutionary trajectory of human progress (p. 172)
    Edward Burnett Tylor- 'the founder of academic anthropology in the English-
    speaking world' "Culture... taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex
    whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, law, custom and any other
    capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society" (p. 172)
    Social Anthropology Sought evidence in human culture of social patterns
    Cultural Anthropology Interprets culture at the level of ideas learned by
    individuals.

    Franz Boas In the US, he led the way in establishing that race, culture, and
    language were separate aspects of human existence. Denoted that biological
    and cultural evolution were part of a single process.

    Emile Durkheim devoted his life to establishing a science of society as the basis
    for the discipline of sociology (p. 173) believed that human behavior is
    fundamentally shaped by the moral, religious and social society in which the
    individual lives Functionalism all aspects of society are interrelated and
    therefore society should be studied as a whole anthropologists began to adopt a
    holistic approach and interpret history with culture in mind and less focus on
    political history.

    Ethnohistory by the end of the 20th century, anthropologists and historians


    came together to combine the strengths of both disciplines - ethnohistory
    ehtnohistory encompasses archeology, ethnology, history and linguistics, and
    the source materials available to the ethnohistorian include folklore, oral
    tradition, maps, paintings, and artifacts, as well as written sources.
    1999, English, Book edition:The houses of history : a critical reader in twentieth-
    century history and theory / selected and introduced by Anna Green & Kathleen
    Troup, 338 p Published New York : New York University Press, 1999.

    (resea por Marco Alvarez)

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