enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Category:Theories of history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Theories_of_history

    Theories of history are theories for why things happened the way they did (and possibly what that means for the future). Subcategories This category has the following 22 subcategories, out of 22 total.

  3. Historiography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography

    Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques of research ...

  4. Historicism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicism

    In this opinion, grand theories are unprovable, and instead intensive field work would determine the most likely explanation and history of a culture, and hence it is named "historicism". This opinion would produce a wide range of definition of what, exactly, constituted culture and history, but in each case the only means of explaining it was ...

  5. Dance theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_theory

    Dance theory is the philosophy underpinning contemporary dance, including formal ideologies, aesthetic concepts, and technical attributes. [1] It is a fairly new field of study, developing largely in the 20th century. It can be considered a branch of expression theory [2] and is closely related to music theory and specifically musicality. [3]

  6. Irmgard Bartenieff - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irmgard_Bartenieff

    This project took Bartenieff into cross-cultural studies of movement, expressed in work and dance activities. An educational film entitled “Dance and Human History” (1976) [10] demonstrates the concepts of the Choreometrics team. [11] This project was the first to adapt Laban-based movement analysis to observation of cultural/geographic ...

  7. Historical method - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_method

    Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Secondary sources, primary sources and material evidence such as that derived from archaeology may all be drawn on, and the historian's skill lies in identifying these sources, evaluating their relative authority, and combining their testimony appropriately in order ...

  8. AOL

    search.aol.com

    The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.

  9. Cliodynamics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics

    Cliodynamics treats history as science. Its practitioners develop theories that explain such dynamical processes as the rise and fall of empires, population booms and busts, and the spread and disappearance of religions. [2] [3] These theories are translated into mathematical models. Finally, model predictions are tested against data.