AHSC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Pacific Railway, Consumerism, Royal Montreal Golf Club
12 Jan 2015
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Lesson 8: the history of recreation and leisure. Lack of documentation and information makes it difficult to study the history. Understanding of present comes from the past. An understanding of history facilitates a sense of appreciation for what is going on today. History textbooks: do not discuss leisure history. Discussion of leisure is the discussion of everyday things (not in history textbooks) Biographies, diaries, even artwork takes a look at what kinds of leisure present in history. Look back and see what people were doing in their everyday lives. Need to be creative very little exists on only leisure history, think around traditional history. Context: society & culture important to understand the history perspective, then look at leisure perspective (families, technology, workplace during this time) Small population: everyone knows everyone (small tribes) Isolated: little to no interaction with other tribes. Little social organization: everyone did all the work.
