I too, completely overlooked the posting/blogging for the readings, since I was so engrossed in the research aspect of my historiography, so I too, must beg forgiveness for the delay in my blog this week. I apologize for this oversight on my part. I have often wondered when I cam e across the term pre-history exactly what […]
The Importance Contigency…and My History of Technology Geek Moment
Not going to lie, I entirely forgot about posting after I read. So, my bad on the lateness. That said… I really, REALLY, liked the article “Investigation the History in Prehistories.” I particularly attached to the discussion of contingency in Continue reading →
Blogging Again with Deep History
Interdisciplinary History Where in the world do you begin a blogpost about Daniel Lord Smail’s Deep History and the Brain? So many thoughts, tangents, and…
When history meets science
The reading this week contains On Deep History and The Brain and four essays of “AHR Forum: Investigating the History in Prehistories”, and there are mainly two sets of issues to discuss: the encounters of history and science, and the cancellation of artificial dichotomy, such as history/pre-history, modern/pre-modern, colonial/pre- colonial. I really enjoy these articles […]
Contemplating Deep History
[Author’s note: I am not feeling well tonight. I am writing a short post with the intent to edit it tomorrow after a long sleep.]…
A Deeper Sense of History
When introducing deep history, Daniel Lord Small discussed two ideas that I see as particularly fertile both intellectually and in terms of cultural perspective. The first is that of a unique, new interdisciplinarity that would link “physical and life sciences” to social sciences and the humanities (Small 2008, 9). Considering history through the ‘”reciprocally creative […]
Am I Biologically Fit for History?
Apparently it’s been too long, and I’ve forgotten how to blog. That, or my brain isn’t functioning at the appropriate evolutionary level, or my neurons are somehow messed up which, actually, wouldn’t be surprising. So, instead I’ll offer these words … Continue reading →
Beads and Gossip
Beads and gossip. I never knew beads and gossip held so much history. Our readings this week expound the idea of a methodology of historical research in which natural science intersects with history and ideas of periodization, temporality and historic … Continue reading →
Deep Thinking on Deep History
“By adding deep historical perspectives to the critical impulses of postcolonial historiography, perhaps we can decisively break free of the self-justifying myopia that is the hallmark of modern historical consciousness. As the “pre” and modern fall away, the potential for speaking new languages of past and present will flourish in their place” (Smail and Andrew, […]
The Existence of Prehistory?
I didn’t know quite what to expect when I discovered the focus of this week’s readings: History Meets Natural History/Science. Immediately, I was skeptical. Though we have previously discussed the intermingling of history with other academic fields (like anthropology, for example), never had I really considered the possibility of history working effectively alongside science. After […]