Histories

In any work analyzing historical events, even when attempting to view the events objectively, the writer is plague by the lenses that time provides. In Manchester’s ‘A World Lit Only by Fire’ he manages to provide some context to the events leading out of the dark ages and into the Renaissance. But he is still confined to a 20th century mindset, and never able to truly know what the people he is writing about were thinking, and how the world they lived in was vastly different from the one we…

1. The West does not have all the answers. Be it with life, space, or a load of other matters; significant and serious questions remain unanswered. With technological advancements every year, anthropologists and scientists are discovering more hidden ruins, cities, and monuments all over the world. This gives us new insight into how certain people lived in the past. Being able to travel further into uncharted territories, such as caves, to find fossils and remains of past lives also produce new…

Now in the 21st century we as a people have different perspectives over events that have happen in the past. There are different studies and research qualities that go deeper into the meaning of why certain events have happened in the past. Just so that we can have an understanding of why it happened and what can we do to learn from it and in a sense never to let it happen again. Events such as slavery, the Trail of Tears, and for this specific paper the Holocaust. This is why social psychology…

Music itself is a language. This language is used everywhere and we relate it to everything. For an individual, one language might speak louder then another. The song “Life of the Party” by Shawn Mendes speaks a language that I can relate too. Released in July of 2014, the song was featured on the Shawn Mendes EP and Handwritten album. “Life of the Party” is a song that has an impact on me and has and will have a cultural and historical significance. This song, which is one of my favourites,…

*Glennie and Thrift 1) Glennie and Thrift discuss the topic of time and the disjuncture between historical general accounts and recent writings about time. The authors ask how much of Thompson’s theory of time is accurate and what changes have occurred in the writing about time since Thompson’s theory was conceived. Glennie and Thrift argue that there have been several major and interrelated modifications in the documentation and questions of time contrary to what Thompson believed. 2)…

Everyday Use by Alice Walker explains heritage to be a tangible object, oral stories, or significant places that are shared from generation to generation. Any form of heritage is remarkably important in a family tree. It keeps us connected to our family line, religion, and beliefs from a long background of where we come from. Traditions change with many different aspects of a family’s background and each family is unique. My family, the Grubbs and Trivitts, have various ongoing traditions like…

For a long time, little was known about this mysterious civilization that lived many years ago. With what we found in the tombs of the Etruscans tells us a lot of how they lived and what they believed in. The Etruscans had an obsession with the burial of their dead. This tells us a lot of how they thought and how they perceived death. Historians learned a lot about this ancient civilization from inscriptions and what they discovered in many of the Etruscan tombs. There are many known…

I visited Mitchell Museum of the American Indian located at 3001 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois. Glancing through the outside of the museum, my impression was this is a pretty small building. I had a single story about the building; I thought I might have chosen the wrong museum to go to since it is small in size. However, as soon as I walked through the main door, I had a good feeling in a cozy building with full of American Indian artifacts, pottery, and native fashion. I was filled with…

There are a multitude of technologies used by anthropologists to help them gain more knowledge on past populations. Once specific technology, known as stable isotope analysis, is frequently used in archeological investigations. This is because it is not too difficult to operate and the results provide an abundance of information, ready to analyze. Through the use of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis, anthropologists can conduct studies to provide anthropological insight on human…

Group-defining Narratives When groups employ collective memory and heritage to construct their identity, they format the representations of pastness as narratives, easier to remember and far more interesting to tell or reenact than a list of raw facts devoid of a storyline. Much like the self-defining narratives discussed previously, these narratives reflect past events which the community believes are vitally important parts of their collective past which helps determine who they are in the…