Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of HistoryDespite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates a vital conversation about how archives around the world are constructed, policed, manipulated, and experienced. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by telling stories that illuminate its power to shape the narratives that are “found” there. Archive Stories brings together ethnographies of the archival world, most of which are written by historians. Some contributors recount their own experiences. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of Western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as Uzbekistan’s newly formed Central State Archive, which severely limits the access of Uzbek researchers. Others explore the genealogies of specific archives, from one of the most influential archival institutions in the modern West, the Archives nationales in Paris, to the significant archives of the Bakunin family in Russia, which were saved largely through the efforts of one family member. Still others explore the impact of current events on the analysis of particular archives. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A number of the essays question what counts as an archive—and what counts as history—as they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Marilyn Booth, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Peter Fritzsche, Durba Ghosh, Laura Mayhall, Jennifer S. Milligan, Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Adele Perry, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, John Randolph, Craig Robertson, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Jeff Sahadeo, Reneé Sentilles |
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this book is the result of many people's willingness—their eagerness, even—to
tell me their archive stories. I wish to thank not only all the contributors, but also
everyone who shared their accounts of what it is like to encounter an archive, ...
archive. fever,. archive. stories. [L'archive] est di≈cile dans sa materialité. —
Arlette Farge, Le goût de 1'archive (1989) [The archivist] is the keeper of
countless objects of desire. —Martha Cooley, The Archivist (1998) in an era
when the echo ...
By foregrounding a variety of archive stories, this collection aims to unpack some
of those histories and to begin to di√use the aura which now more than ever
surrounds the notion of ''real'' archives, especially those with which historians
have ...
But Robertson also links his archive story to the history of exclusion as embodied
by the passport, the would- be panoptical technology for archiving personal
identification via a catalog of bodily characteristics. He does so, significantly, not
...
historians long to tell their archive stories, but unlike anthropologists, sociologists,
and even political scientists, our narratives of field- work have little purchase
within the professional standards of our discipline, which demand a certain level
of ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |