Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

hr 1999 ook, Decolonizing Methodologies,
In
Tuhiwai Smith xplains how many
Linda
that valu oral ways of approahing th
systms
hav n “rlassifid as oral traditions
world
than historis”. This lassifiation suggsts
rathr
th storis and aounts whih ar an
that
part of th fari of ths Indignous
ssntial
and ar mddd in th land,
ommunitis
within popl’s nams and gnalogis
wovn
xprssd through art and raft, do not
and
a valid mthod of aquiring or
onstitut
knowldg.
transmitting
histories, along with generally labelled
Oral
artefacts”, have played an
“material-cultural
role in carrying and communicating the
important
systems of many peoples around the
knowledge
both for themselves and outsiders. For this
world,
the modern practice of taking and storing
reason,
artefacts in museums in the large cities of
such
industrialized nations has significant
advanced
for access to knowledge and ethics—
implications
it is historical, religious or artistic. This is
whether
for example, someone’s battle shield ends up
how,
the prehistoric or artistic exhibit of a museum,
in
when it belongs to a people or culture
even
is very much in the present. What are the
that
of this practice, for history as well as
implications
areas of knowledge? To what extent should
other
return these artefacts to their people, even if
we
means dismantling museums’ collections?
that
explore this issue in more depth in
We
10, II.4.
Chapter
in th futur may wll hav a vry
Historians
prolm, aus prsnt-day ultur
diffrnt
argumnt within history is that its mthods,
On
qustions, ar prnnial: thy apply to
and
lif always and forvr. Lt’s pursu this
human
to s whr it lads.
ida
you ar a historian in 2120, trying to
Imagin
th narrativ of human lif in 2020.
ronstrut
1. What rords do you hav of 2020?
Who mad ths rords, why, and in
2.
form?
what
What, and who, might missing from
3.
rords?
ths
How do th answrs to qustions 1–3
4.
your intrprtation of th rord,
afft
the historian before you begin to study the
Study
The facts … are like sh on the shmonger’s
facts.
The historian collects them, takes them home
slab.
cooks and serves them.
and
ontinu with th mtaphor of tras of
Lt’s
past floating through tim, and assum now
th
w hav a historian willing and al to
that
thm. Th qustion for us is whthr
grasp
historian an “s” ths tras as thy
our
ojtiv rmnants of th past—or
ar—as
th historian nssarily has a sujtiv
whthr
Th kn osrvr will raliz
intrprtation.
thr is anothr, mor fundamntal qustion:
that
an w disrn twn sujtiv and
how
intrprtations of th knowal past?
ojtiv
do w rogniz ojtivity and sujtivity
How
III. Methods and tools
III. Methods and tools
For reflection
Interpreting the historical record
Making connections
Art, museums and ethics
and your narrativ of human lif in 2020?
III.2 The historian’s role
(Carr 1961)
lavs suh a vast matrial and digital footprint.
whn w s thm?
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