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Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory
Francis Xavier Blouin
William G. Rosenberg
其他書名
Essays from the Sawyer Seminar
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 2007-08-02
主題
History / General
History / Historiography
History / Essays
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries
Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
ISBN
9780472032709
0472032704
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=z_L3dTD3H6QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 A
rchives, 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.