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What is Written? What was Left Behind?  How Does a Culture Describe the Relationship?

 

How do we use "the Story People Tell Themselves about Themselves" to Understand what is Written and What is Left Behind?

Holistic History is not a methodology designed to replace more traditional approaches to historical inquiry; it depends on it. In addition it depends on the work of several other disciplines: archaeology, art history, the classics, and anthropology.

The Ethnohistorian, using the Holistic Method, engages in field work and uses anthropological methodology (ethnography, oral histories, folklore, folk religion, etc.) as a means of engaging the written record - as discerned through the work of historians - with the record of material culture - as collected and described by archaeologists, art historians, etc.  The goal is to allow a given culture to interpret the historical "evidence" on its own terms.

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