Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of HistoryAntoinette Burton Duke University Press, 25 ม.ค. 2006 - 408 หน้า 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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... historians in the United States , the relationship between fact and fiction , truth and lies , is a matter of heated discussion . While charges of inaccurate footnoting may have done little to damage the reputation of a public historian ...
... historians arguably have the most at stake in these debates— given their historical attachment to archival evidence ... historian's craft itself . At the same time , recourse to the virtual archive does 2 Antoinette Burton.
... historians have with them . For archives do not simply arrive or emerge fully formed ; nor are they innocent of struggles for power in either their creation or their interpretive applications . Though their own origins are often ...
... historians operate under the assumption that history is a highly interpretive act — even as critics equate such views with the death of history or worse , " the killing of history " per se.24 This is no mere rhetorical flourish , of ...
... historians about their archive stories when asked . Durba Ghosh's account of her research in Britain and India , for example , dramatizes the ways in which gender and race as forms of embodiment can mark the experience of the historian ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |