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 reasons . Of course , archives — that is , traces of the past collected either inten- tionally or haphazardly as " evidence " -are by no means limited to official spaces or state repositories . They have been housed in a ...
... political ramifications of that convergence have yet to be fully historicized in this , the information age , even as the connections between archiving information , accessing knowl- edge , and working the public sphere are proving ...
... political , cultural , and socioeconomic pressures - pressures which leave traces and which render archives themselves artifacts of history . By foregrounding a variety of archive stories , this collection aims to unpack some of those ...
... political fortunes of both minority and dominant communities the world over , with public contests over Maori history in New Zealand and the rewriting of textbooks shorn of anything but Hindutva politics in India standing as just two of ...
... political pressures which the archive places on the histories they end up writing - as well as those they do not . Crucial to the task of re - materializing the multiple contingencies of history writing is the project of historicizing ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |