VALIDATING HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS: AN APPROACH FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY.
Historians and anthropologists share a common problem of setting criteria for the validation of their interpretations. While many features are shared and explicit—for example, that a full range of data needs to be considered and that information should be reliably sourced—the actual criteria for ass...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 384 - 403 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2024
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