Building New Bridges / Batir De Nouveaux Ponts

by Keshen, Jeff; Perrier, Sylvie; Gaffield, Chad

• ISBN13: 9780776605937
• ISBN10: 0776605933
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

Questions of methodology and the use of sources are fundamental to all academic disciplines. In recent years, this topic has become far more challenging as scholars are increasingly adopting an interdisciplinary approach to achieve richer and deeper analyses, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Building New Bridges / B'tir de nouveaux ponts is a collection of scholarly papers that deals with the first principles of source identification and their effective utilization.The contributors to the volume come from a wide range of disciplines and represent both French and English Canada. Together, they explore and encourage the interdisciplinarity trend - around which considerable academic trepidation remains - and seek to explain, for example, how historians and those in English or Lettres françaises analyze texts, how scholars approach paintings, photography, and film, and how the study of music relates tempo and lyrics to wider societal trends. They utilize their respective research to elucidate means of effectively employing evidences and methods to achieve richer, deeper, and more nuanced results. As a whole, the collection provides an excellent primer for scholars of methodology.

Author Biography

Jeff Keshen is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. Sylvie Perrier is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa. Chad Gaffield is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Jeff Keshen
Sylvie Perrier
Vellum and Vaccinium: Documentary and Archaeological Evidence in the Study of Medieval Produce	5	(12)
Charlotte Masemann
Talking Numbers: Deconstructing Engineering Discourse	17	(12)
James Hull
Model Behaviour: A Material Culture Approach to the History of Anatomy Models	29	(20)
Susan Lamb
Re-disciplining the Body	49	(14)
Lisa Helps
The Uncooperative Primary Source: Literary Recovery versus Historical Fact in the Strange Production of Cogewea	63	(10)
Robert Strong
Reading Books/Reading Lives: Culture, Language, and Power in Nineteenth-Century School Readers	73	(18)
Barbara Lorenzkowski
Rigueur et sensibilite dans un parcours historien	91	(12)
Hubert Watelet
Inside Out: The Use and Inadvertent Misuse of Oral Histories	103	(10)
Laura E. Ettinger
Les sources juridiques au service de l'histoire socio-culturelle de la France medievale et moderne	113	(12)
Kouky Fianu
Sylvie Perrier
Revisiting Quantitative Methods in Immigration History: Immigrant Files in the Archives of the Russian Consulates in Canada	125	(18)
Vadim Kukushkin
Reflexions sur la question identitaire d'apres les recensements informatises: l'exemple des «Suisses» en Ontario (1871-1881)	143	(16)
Samy Khalid
The Politics of Sources and Definitions	159	(12)
Cristina Bradatan
Reporting the People's War: Ottawa (1914-1918)	171	(14)
Jeff Keshen
Documents in Bronze and Stone: Memorials and Monuments as Historical Sources	185	(12)
Jonathan F. Vance
The Evidence of Omission in Art History's Texts	197	(10)
Katherine Romba
Images: mode(s) d'emploi	207	(18)
Melanie De Groote
What do the Radio Program Schedules Reveal? Content Analysis versus Accidental Sampling in Early Canadian Radio History	225	(14)
Anne F. MacLennan
Television as Historical Source: Using Images in Cultural History	239	(10)
Caroline-Isabelle Caron
``Wie es eigentlich gewesen?'' Early Film as Historical Source?	249	(16)
Michel S. Beaulieu
Evidence of What? Changing Answers to the Question of Historical Sources as Illustrated by Research Using the Census	265	(10)
Chad Gaffield
Contributors/Collaborateurs	275