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ARCHIVES, DOCUMENTATION, AND INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIAL MEMORY
ESSAYS FROM THE SAWYER SEMINAR |
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Francis X. Blouin Jr. (Editor), William G. Rosenberg (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£56.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472032704 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472032709 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
2 August, 2007 |
| Pages: |
512 |
| Description: |
Explores the importance of archives as artifacts of culture. This work features essays that 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. |
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This book features essays exploring the importance of archives as artifacts of culture. 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. |
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2 drawings, 3 b&w photographs |
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US |
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The University of Michigan Press |
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