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==History and prehistory==

==History and prehistory==

The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the ''subject of history''. In the 20th century, the division between history and prehistory became problematic. Criticism arose because of history's implicit exclusion of certain civilizations, such as those of [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] and [[pre-Columbian America]]. Historians in the West have been criticized for focusing disproportionately on the [[Western world]]. [[Jack Goody]] (2007) ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jo1UVi48KywC The Theft of History]'' Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521870690 "Sacred_bundle">[http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/Segal] [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/people/faculty/yanagisako.html Sylvia J. Yanagisako] (eds.), James Clifford, Ian Hodder, Rena Lederman, Michael Silverstein, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology, Duke University Press [http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=11016434335&Bmain.Btitle_option=1&Bmain.Btitle=Unwrapping+the+Sacred+Bundle][http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/theory/yanasegal.pdf Introduction available online]. Reviewed by [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jlat.2006.11.1.235 Daniel Reichman] of [[Cornell University]]; [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2006.47.1.8.2?journalCode=an Eric Alden Smith] of the [[University of Washington]]; [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00372_39.x Herbert S. Lewis] of the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]; and [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/anthropological_quarterly/v078/78.4song.pdf Hoon Song] of the [[University of Minnesota]].

The development, transmission, and transformation of cultural practices and events are the ''subject of history''. In the 20th century, the division between history and prehistory became problematic. Criticism arose because of history's implicit exclusion of certain civilizations, such as those of [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] and [[pre-Columbian America]]. Historians in the West have been criticized for focusing disproportionately on the [[Western world]]. [[Jack Goody]] (2007) ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jo1UVi48KywC The Theft of History]'' Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521870690 "Sacred_bundle"[http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/Segal] [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/people/faculty/yanagisako.html Sylvia J. Yanagisako] (eds.), James Clifford, Ian Hodder, Rena Lederman, Michael Silverstein, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology, Duke University Press [http://www.dukeupress.edu/cgibin/forwardsql/search.cgi?template0=nomatch.htm&template2=books/book_detail_page.htm&user_id=11016434335&Bmain.Btitle_option=1&Bmain.Btitle=Unwrapping+the+Sacred+Bundle][http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/%7Edsegal/theory/yanasegal.pdf Introduction available online]. Reviewed by [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jlat.2006.11.1.235 Daniel Reichman] of [[Cornell University]]; [http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2006.47.1.8.2?journalCode=an Eric Alden Smith] of the [[University of Washington]]; [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00372_39.x Herbert S. Lewis] of the [[University of Wisconsin-Madison]]; and [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/anthropological_quarterly/v078/78.4song.pdf Hoon Song] of the [[University of Minnesota]].

Additionally, prehistorians such as [[Vere Gordon Childe]] and historical archaeologists such as [[James Deetz]] began using archaeology to explain important events in areas that were traditionally in the field of written history. Historians began looking beyond traditional political history narratives with new approaches such as economic, social and cultural history, all of which relied on various sources of evidence.  In recent decades, strict barriers between history and prehistory may be decreasing.

Additionally, prehistorians such as [[Vere Gordon Childe]] and historical archaeologists such as [[James Deetz]] began using archaeology to explain important events in areas that were traditionally in the field of written history. Historians began looking beyond traditional political history narratives with new approaches such as economic, social and cultural history, all of which relied on various sources of evidence.  In recent decades, strict barriers between history and prehistory may be decreasing.