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- Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, artifacts of culture, and places of uncovering, archives provide tangible evidence of memory for individuals, communities, and states, as well as defining memory institutionally within prevailing political systems and cultural norms. By assigning the prerogatives of record keeper to the archivist, whose acquisition policies, finding aids, and various institutionalized predilections mediate between scholarship and information, archives produce knowledge, legitimize political systems, and construct identities. Far from being mere repositories of data, archives actually embody the fragments of culture that endure as signifiers of who we are, and why. The essays in Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory conceive of archives not simply as historical repositories but as a complex of structures, processes, and epistemologies situated at a critical point of the intersection between scholarship, cultural practices, politics, and technologies.
Table of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-ix
- Archiving/Architecture
- pp. 54-60
- The Panoptical Archive
- pp. 144-150
- Archival Representation
- pp. 151-163
- Part III. Archives and Social Memory
- pp. 165-168
- Archives, Heritage, and History
- pp. 193-206
- Archives: Particles of Memory or More?
- pp. 215-218
- Russian History: Is It in the Archives?
- pp. 451-458
- Contributors
- pp. 497-502
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472026722
Related ISBN(s)
9780472032709, 9780472114931
MARC Record
OCLC
607821490
Pages
512
Launched on MUSE
2011-07-21
Language
English
Open Access
No