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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... political encounters between the scholar and the archive itself. We do so because of our belief that the material spaces of archives exert tremendous and largely unspoken influences on their users, producing Introduction 9.
... spaces—spaces in which archivists she encountered were reacting as much to the imprint of contemporary anxieties ... space itself, whose very materiality is linked to regime changes past, present, and future. Sahadeo's account of the ...
... spaces which were never materialized in or as history. Such a project takes aim at the telos that undergirds even some of the most nuanced disciplinary work, bound as it still is to using sources to explain ''what happened'' or to ...
... spaces of the Archives nationales, the Bakunin estate, and the Kohler leisure-scapes that precede Booth's essay, Fawaaz's discursive ar- chive is powerful testimony to the alternative historical narratives available to us when we wander ...
... spaces and conventions of national archives and libraries. In spite of recent e√orts to downplay the importance of the nation and look at our historical projects transnationally, the ways in which archives are national institutions ...
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Official Archives and CounterHistories | 157 |
The Past in the Present | 297 |
Select Bibliography | 375 |
Contributors | 381 |
Index | 385 |