post colonial history

POSTCOLONIALHISTORY Understanding the colonial period now from a fully revised perspective The analysis of colonies in the process of and after their liberation.

These are different if connected.

The first is to understand now how imperialists and colonialists created the "Other" (Green, Troup, 1999, 280; see Said) based on evolutionary superiority of usually Protestant Christian or secularised people over the less developed and orientals, the strange alien over whom superior rationalised government was produced. This was the language of alterity of anthropologists (Rapport, Overing, 2000, 9-10, and see 98). Classification by academics produced a primitivism or exoticism of the lowest status peoples in Europe related to a past time (neolithic and mediaeval) contained within geographical space (Rapport, Overing, 2000, 100, 13). This was a dominant ideology justifying control, although there was a variety of academic thought, and it was used for legitimacy within governance.

ORAL HISTORY

ORAL HISTORY Oral history is clearly very attractive to a great many people. It requires accessible technology available for some decades now of a simple recorder and tape. The person interviewed goes back in time to recall childhood, and so it seems possible to stretch back into days lost when things were done differently.

ETHNOHISTORY

ETHNOHISTORY Ethnohistory is that type of history which comes closest to social anthropology. It began in the 1950s in the United States as a means of understanding the history of American Indians from the inside, as it were, rather than being judged as external objects of study. Most history relies on documents in Western society fashion, but ethnohistory needs other experiential insights like folklore, stories handed down, maps, artwork and objects, and it looks at archaeology, anthropology and linguistics (Green, Troup, 1999, 175).

HISTORIOGRAPHY-GENDER

HISTORIOGRAPHY-GENDER Gender history starts with the distinction made between gender and sex, in that gender adds on to sex expectations of cultural propriety and power relationships (see Green, Troup, 1999, 253). These are made, not given (sex is a given), and so they have a maker as well as receiver.

HISTORICISM

EMPIRICISM-HISTORICISM Empiricism remains one of the most influential methods of doing history because it focuses on method. It is about accuracy with primary sources, close work that extracts the evidence and produces an account of the past as close to the evidence as possible. Many footnotes or references should be expected. The sources should be generated at the time the history work is focusing upon.

ESSAYS-HISTORIOGRAPHY

History Extension

ESSAYS

Contents

Reynolds Henry               Why Weren’t We Told?

Hobsbawn, Eric                On History

Evanx, Richard J              In Defence of History

Becher, Carl J                  ‘What are Historical Facts?’

Vincent, John                   An Intelligent Person’s Guide to History

Jenkins, Keith                  What is History

Bailyn, Bernard                Two Encounters

Summers, Anne                Damned Whores and God’s Police

Dixson, Miriam                The Real Matilda

Windschuttle, Keith         The Killing of History

open course-KERALA CULTURE

KERALA CULTURE

Kerala has a great culture that has been contributed by the people and different races. The history of Kerala can tell about the process of culture synthesis.Throughout the ages, Kerala has proved that it can respond to any challenges through its adaptation and combination of old traditions.The people of Kerala have got an honor among those who have achieved Indian cultural heritage. The culture of Kerala is a part of Indian culture. Kerala’s culture has persisted due to the reasons of unity, continuity and universality. It gives importance to the human achievements in any fields like religion, philosophy, language, art, education and social organization.