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2 years ago in Disciplinary History , Sociology of Knowledge By Akshatha Patel
What distinct roles did the earliest historians play in forming "history" first as a literary genre and later as an academic discipline?
 I'm interested in the sociology of knowledge. How did the first historians (like Herodotus or Sima Qian) create a new social role for the "historian"? What were they doing that priests, poets, or scribes did not? Later, how did figures like Ranke institutionalize that role within the university? What professional practices, epistemic standards, and societal functions did they establish that now define the discipline?
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