The world without Historiography

[Hvalrossen]

Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography

Was the invention/discovery of Historiography ineviteble, just likely or neither?

How would a society without Historiography introspect?

 

[piratedude]

I mean as long as there's a human tendency towards self reflection it's only a matter of time until you have historians getting meta about their shit

 

[cmakk1012]

Hmmm, I’d argue that historiography is sort of inevitable but I do think that it could have developed massively differently.

For example, for Western historiography, what if Herodotus never existed? That would have massive repercussions, right?

 

[Escape Zeppelin]

I mean as long as there's a human tendency towards self reflection it's only a matter of time until you have historians getting meta about their shit

Agreed. Even the Romans and Greek historians liked to question earlier sources and criticize their accuracy and even Herodotus seems to have been pretty selective on his indirect sources. I'd say historiography is absolutely inevitable.