DAN 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sergei Diaghilev, Russian Culture, Cubism
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Assignments: carter, alexandra, destabilizing the discipline: critical debates about history and their impact on the study of dance, and mccormick, reynolds, no fixed points, pp. 60-71 there have been recent criticisms of how we read and interpret history the nature and status of knowledge is being questioned and how that knowledge is retrieved, organized, recorded, and received. Many people assume that the history reading they see is filled with facts that are true . Now, people are stopping the tendency to view the historian as a neutral recorder authors are human beings, and are therefore subject to a variety of influences and bias. We need to be aware that no time in history neatly starts or finishes , there is overlap. Biases do not invalidate writing, but it helps us understand where the author is coming from. History often privileges certain kinds of people and activity.
