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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... project of fact - retrieval ( the kind of empiricism reflected in the csi paradigm as well as in public debates about plagiarism or the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ) but also a set of complex processes of selection , Introduction 7.
... reflected in requests for help with obtaining prescription drugs and emigration ) . Taken together , Ghosh and Sahadeo remind us of the varied economies of desire - those systems of material and symbolic power which structure ...
... reflect rather differently on the question of how contact with " the archive " and what is found there shape the stories which historians can tell . Horacio N. Roque Ramírez's piece on Teresita la Campesina — the Latina transgender ...
... reflect more widely held ( if liberal ) convictions about white settler community and history is equally instructive . Perry's essay offers a multi - storied ac- count of the contretemps set in motion by the trial , critiques the com ...
... reflect the process by which historical knowledge is gathered , narrated , and represented . Archival research is an important credential in the career of a historian , often making or breaking our claims to " truth " and positivism ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |