The problem with that outlook, she said, is that "you can't help but go in and look at material and interpret material in a certain way".
Sure enough, after instructing her dancers to interpret material from a solo she performed at Danspace Project in June, she flopped onto the mattress.
Unfortunately, virtually the whole training of historians is devoted to reading written texts, so that skill is hypertrophied, while the ability to interpret material objects is underdeveloped.
Thus, the great Museum at Alexandria, founded by Ptolemy I Soter early in the 3rd century bce, with its college of scholars and its famous library, was more a prototype university than an institution to preserve and interpret material aspects of one's heritage.
The maker's perspective is often the last one we consider when we interpret material remains.
Vertebrate zoologist Edward TedDaeschlerler of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, calls the examinations "a classically simple way to interpret material in the fossil record".
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He valued (1) empiricism without universal generalizations or laws of development, as well as (2) the synthesis between the subjective and objective aspects of interpreted materials without metaphysical commitments about the mind, and (3) the interest, found in Meyer and Schmoller, in the plurality of conditions and institutions that may characterize a historical phenomenon or period.
The WaPo series was as much or more about collating, organizing, and interpreting material that was already there for the taking as it was about traditional reporting.
The show runs through May 5 as part of the society's "History Responds" project, collecting and interpreting material related to the Sept. 11 attack.
