Building new bridges : sources, methods, and interdisciplinarity / edited by Jeff Keshen, Sylvie Perrier = Bâtir de nouveaux ponts : sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité / sous la direction de Jeff Keshen, Sylvie Perrier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keshen, Jeff, 1962- editor.

Perrier, Sylvie, editor.

Series:

Open Access e-Books.

Knowledge Unlatched.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Methodology--Congresses.

Social sciences.

Humanities--Methodology--Congresses.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press 2005

Ottawa [Ontario] : University of Ottawa Press = Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach to achieve richer and deeper analyses, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Building New Bridges / Bâtir de nouveaux ponts is a collection of scholarly papers that deals with the first principles of source identification and their effective utilization.The contributors to the volume come from a wide range of disciplines and represent both French and English Canada. Together, they explore and encourage the interdisciplinarity trend - around which considerable academic trepidation remains - and seek to explain, for example, how historians and those in English or Lettres françaises analyze texts, how scholars approach paintings, photography, and film, and how the study of music relates tempo and lyrics to wider societal trends. They utilize their respective research to elucidate means of effectively employing evidences and methods to achieve richer, deeper, and more nuanced results. As a whole, the collection provides an excellent primer for scholars of methodology.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Vellum and Vaccinium: Documentary and Archaeological Evidence in the Study of Medieval Produce

2. Talking Numbers: Deconstructing Engineering Discourse

3. Model Behaviour: A Material Culture Approach to the History of Anatomy Models

4. Re-disciplining the Body

5. The Uncooperative Primary Source: Literary Recovery versus Historical Fact in the Strange Production of Cogewea

6. Reading Books/Reading Lives: Culture, Language, and Power in Nineteenth-Century School Readers

7. Rigueur et sensibilité dans un parcours historien

8. Inside Out: The Use and Inadvertent Misuse of Oral Histories

9. Les sources juridiques au service de l'histoire socio-culturelle de la France médiévale et moderne

10. Revisiting Quantitative Methods in Immigration History: Immigrant Files in the Archives of the Russian Consulates in Canada

11. Réflexions sur la question identitaire d'après les recensements informatisés : l'exemple des Suisses en Ontario (1871-1881)

12 The Politics of Sources and Definitions

13. Reporting the People's War: Ottawa (1914-1918)

14. Documents in Bronze and Stone: Memorials and Monuments as Historical Sources

15. The Evidence of Omission in Art History's Texts

16. Images: mode(s) d'emploi

17. What do the Radio Program Schedules Reveal?: Content Analysis versus Accidental Sampling in Early Canadian Radio History

18. Television as Historical Source: Using Images in Cultural History

19. "Wie es eigentlich gewesen?" Early Film as Historical Source?

20. Evidence of What? Changing Answers to the Question of Historical Sources as Illustrated by Research Using the Census.

Notes:

Text in English and French.

Papers presented at a conference held at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., May 8-9, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.

OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554

ISBN:

9780776626987

0776626981

9780776615523

0776615521

OCLC:

742332999

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_578810

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access