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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... producing in the process a nationwide public debate about the nature of citizenship after apartheid.≥ Such a project was and is tied to ''making public memory, publicly,'' and as such it often pits conventional forms of knowledge about ...
... produce, and which they silence in specific historical and cultural contexts; enumerating the ways in which archival ... producing Introduction 9.
... produces, to intrigue about what a virtual, disembodied research experience will be like, to skepticism about the ultimate utility of the Web as a tool of archival research. In one sense, Sentilles produces a story of encounter 12 ...
... produces a story of encounter that is less transformative for her sense of identity as an archive user or the history she will ultimately write than do Ghosh, Sahadeo, Robertson, Ballantyne, and Ramírez. At the same time, as she ...
... produce biographical accounts, Randolph emphasizes the ways in which the rhythms of daily life and especially of domesticity helped to consolidate (through ''selecting, stitching, and guarding'' its ephemeral pieces) the family archive ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |