Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0472032704 ISBN 13 : 9780472032709

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Francis X. Blouin Jr. is Professor of History, Professor of Information, and Director of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

William G. Rosenberg is Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472032704
• ISBN 13: 9780472032709
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Éditeur: Blouin Jr. Francis Xavier, Rosenberg William G.
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