documentary source
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdocumentaryandsource
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documentary
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌdɒk.jəˈmen.tər.i/us/ˌdɑː.kjəˈmen.t̬ɚ.i/
in the form ...
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source
noun[C]
uk/sɔːs/us/sɔːrs/
the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause ...
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Each author also uses a variety of sources to reconstruct these histories : oral narratives, colonial diaries and that raredocumentarysource, the autobiography.
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In the same period she worked with both oral and documentary sources.
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The study of documentary sources reveals the musicians to be highly ambitious participants with associations that crossed many professional and social boundaries.
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It is thus significant that documentary sources are covered here in three different articles.
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These arguments are supported by anecdotal evidence from published speeches and documentary sources (not referenced).
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And 'reconstruction' is itself a slippery process, since it depends on documentary sources, such as reviews and prompt books, that are themselves culturally mediated.
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It is based on documentary sources and oral histories collected during two years of fieldwork and on archival and missionary sources.
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Undoubtedly, such a comparison is hampered by the difficulties of finding documentary sources that provide the appropriate type of evidence.
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In general, he is more comfortable with documentary sources and with literary sources that reflect official points of view.
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These and the royal palaces, examples of which are known at several centres, are linked in the documentary sources with coronation rituals.
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However, these documentary sources give little indication as to where such 'de facto' families lived.
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The following discussion refers to fieldwork data in addition to documentary sources.
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The documentary sources have the advantage of being contemporary to the events they describe and are mostly the work of eyewitnesses.
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Documentary sources have provided further support for this thesis.
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Documentary sources for the former, especially during the eighteenth century, are lacking.
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Three specific data generation methods were employed : participant observation, semistructured interviews, and the analysis of documentary sources.
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The book is based upon an empirical analysis of documentary sources and interviews with key individuals undertaken in four case study authorities.
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The author relies heavily upon official documentary sources, his own personal knowledge of politics in the region, and supplementation principally by periodical sources.
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Since neither published nor documentary sources cast light on this issue, there would seem to be considerable scope in this field for the oral historian.
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They also find corroboration in documentary sources.
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