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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... political question of archival reliability itself . Keen to remind us that the Windschuttle debate was and is as much about fin - de- siècle local politics ( in the wake of the Mabo decision and in the context of a conservative ...
... Political Transitions : Gettysburg to Bosnia ( New York : Zone Books , 1999 ) , 217–62 . 5 Mark Philip Bradley and Patrice Petro , eds . , Truth Claims : Representation and Human Rights ( New Brunswick , N.J .: Rutgers University Press ...
... Politics of Miscegenation BRITAIN AND INDIA HISTORIANS LONG TO TELL their archive stories , but unlike anthro- pologists , sociologists , and even political scientists , our narratives of field- work have little purchase within the ...
... political investments that many archives and ar- chive dwellers maintain in spite of a quickly globalizing and transnational world.2 This essay seeks to expand our definitions of the kinds of knowledges that archives produce by ...
... political agent in the court at Hyderabad and his love affair with a young native noblewoman , has sold over sixty thousand copies in the British Isles , showing the extent of the mainstream appeal for colonial histories of interracial ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |