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Sources and voices
Every account is written by someone, for someone, at some moment. Historians ask who wrote it, who is missing, and what survived by chance. A past told only from the records of the powerful has gaps that other sources, including oral ones, can help fill.
Connects to
- History
- Memory and the past
- Archaeoastronomy
- Writing
- Dating the past
- How do we know what happened?
- Whose voices are missing?
- What was lost, and how to know?
- Can history include its writer?
- Memory
- Printing
- The internet
- Colonial history
- Heritage and return
- How does a people hold knowledge?
- Who keeps a people’s objects?
- Whose voice is missing?