Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of HistoryAntoinette Burton Duke University Press, 25 Á.¤. 2006 - 408 ˹éÒ Despite 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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... Narratives and the Politics of Miscegenation: Britain and India 27 jeff sahadeo ''Without the Past There Is No Future'': Archives, History, and Authority in Uzbekistan 45 craig roberston Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the ...
... narratives which are to be ''found'' there. What follows, in other words, are not merely histories or genealogies of archives or ''the archive'' but, rather, self-conscious ethnographies of one of the chief investigative foundations of ...
... narrative and involve the drama of getting to archives, living in terrible digs while working there, and enduring dilapidated work conditions and capricious archivists.≤∏ Most have been framed by confessions of archive pleasure—what ...
... narratives they craft and the histories they write. We do so too because as I have suggested above, there is a marked contrast between the silences in print about these experiences and the volubility of historians about their archive ...
... narrative and meta-narrative, as both archive and history-in- the-making. The case of Adah Isaacs Menken which Renée Sentilles o√ers us in her essay ''Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace'' functions, at least at first glance, as a ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |