Building New Bridges - Bâtir de nouveaux ponts : Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity - Sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité

Abstract

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 / Bâtir 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. Contents Table des matieres Introduction 1 Jeff Keshen/Sylvie Perrier 1 Vellum and Vaccinium: Documentary and Archaeological Evidence in the Study of Medieval Produce 5 Charlotte Masemann 2 Talking Numbers: Deconstructing Engineering Discourse 17 James Hull 3 Model Behaviour: A Material Culture Approach to the History of Anatomy Models 29 Susan Lamb 4 Re-disciplining the Body 49 Lisa Helps 5 The Uncooperative Primary Source: Literary Recovery versus Historical Fact in the Strange Production of Cogewea 63 Robert Strong 6 Reading Books/Reading Lives: Culture, Language, and Power in Nineteenth-Century School Readers 73 Barbara Lorenzkowski 1 Rigueur et sensibilite dans un parcours historien 91 Hubert Watelet 8 Inside Out: The Use and Inadvertent Misuse of Oral Histories 103 Laura E. Ettinger 9 Les sources juridiques au service de l'histoire socio-culturelle de la France medievale et moderne 113 Kouky Fianu/Sylvie Perrier 10 Revisiting Quantitative Methods in Immigration History: Immigrant Files in the Archives of the Russian Consulates in Canada 125 Vadim Kukushkin 11 Reflexions sur la question identitaire d'apres les recensements informatises : l'exemple des « Suisses » en Ontario (1871-1881) 143 Samy Khalid 12 The Politics of Sources and Definitions 159 Cristina Bradatan 13 Reporting the People's War: Ottawa (1914-1918) 171 Jeff Keshen 14 Documents in Bronze and Stone: Memorials and Monuments as Historical Sources 185 Jonathan F. Vance 15 The Evidence of Omission in Art History's Texts 197 Katherine Romba 16 Images : mode(s) d'emploi 207 Melanie De Groote 17 What do the Radio Program Schedules Reveal? Content Analysis versus Accidental Sampling in Early Canadian Radio History 225 Anne F. MacLennan 18 Television as Historical Source: Using Images in Cultural History 239 Caroline-Isabelle Caron 19 "Wie es eigentlich gewesen? " Early Film as Historical Source? 249 Michel S. Beaulieu 20 Evidence of What? Changing Answers to the Question of Historical Sources as Illustrated by Research Using the Census 265 Chad Gaffield Contributors/Collaborateurs 275