Okay so trying to accurately and succinctly define rituals and their importance in discussion for medieval history is proving difficult for me today haha.
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It’s been awhile since I looked at the paradigm shifts in archaeology/anthropology. Like, a good 10 years. I only realized relatively recently that we are now more in a post-postmodern era. But that wasn’t anything we were taught.
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When I did postmodernism in my historiography class back in 2014, we talked a lot about truths and memory. How can we know the past? Are we just all making it up? Objectivity is a lie and nothing we read can accurately reflect reality.
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It was a disheartening thing to read because one of the conclusions we drew was what the heck is the point?
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Anyway we didn’t get much of an answer out of that. Only that I had a sort of crisis around that time of whether I can really study history.
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Would it help got look at how I wrote about & defined medieval ritual in 2012? Because I also struggled with a useful ritual definition when writing about religious activity.
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