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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... scholar has confessed to me a desire to take objects from the archive — a photo of Tito signed by Churchill , a nineteenth - century pencil dangling from a hand - written diary — and who knows how many others have actu- ally done so ...
... scholars . In terms of embodiment , this involves countenancing the starkly privileged lives which even Western graduate students lead compared with archivists who might be willing to receive chocolate or magazines from researchers - if ...
... scholars of the disci- pline and its cultures to analyze and interpret . Part II , " States of the Art : ' Official ' Archives and Counter - Histories , ” features genealogies of five specific institutional archival sites and the story ...
... scholars endeavor to create new histories , especially outside the West . Her stories of petitioning for access to archives of the uprising never before seen and of sitting in the reading room knowing that the Vierkleur South African ...
... scholarly and to some ex- tent public reaction to History and its engagement with the problem of " facts , " specifically with respect to the numbers of dead in an infamous massacre of aborigines in Tasmania . In a widely read and much ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |