Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory

出版者:University of Michigan Press

作者:Rosenberg, William G. (EDT)/ Blouin, Francis X. (EDT)

页数:512

出版时间:2006-4-3

价格:USD 105.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780472114931

具体描述

As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, artifacts of culture, and places of uncovering, archives provide tangible evidence of memory for individuals, communities, and states. Archives also define memory institutionally within prevailing political systems and cultural norms. By assigning the prerogatives of record keeper to the archivist, whose acquisition policies, finding aids, and various institutionalized predilections mediate between scholarship and information, archives produce knowledge, legitimize political systems, and construct identities.

Far from being mere repositories of data, archives actually embody the fragments of culture that endure as signifiers of who we are, and why. The essays in Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory conceive of archives not simply as historical repositories but as a complex of structures, processes, and epistemologies situated at a critical point of the intersection between scholarship, cultural practices, politics, and technologies.

作者简介

Francis X. Blouin Jr. is Professor of History, Professor of Information, and Director of the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan.

William G. Rosenberg is Alfred G. Meyer Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan.

目录信息

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
part i. Archives and Archiving
Introduction 1
“Something She Called a Fever”: Michelet, Derrida, and Dust (Or, in the Archives with
Michelet and Derrida) 4
Carolyn Steedman
The Problem of Publicité in the Archives of Second Empire France 20
Jennifer S. Milligan
Not Dragon at the Gate but Research Partner: The Reference Archivist as Mediator 36
Kathleen Marquis
Between Veneration and Loathing: Loving and Hating Documents 43
James M. O’Toole
Archiving/Architecture 54
Kent Kleinman
“Records of Simple Truth and Precision”: Photography, Archives, and the Illusion
of Control 61
Joan M. Schwartz
part ii. Archives in the Production of Knowledge
Introduction 85
Out of the Closet and into the Archives? German Jewish Papers 89
Atina Grossmann
German Jewish Archives in Berlin and New York: Three Generations after the Fact 101
Frank Mecklenburg
Medieval Archivists as Authors: Social Memory and Archival Memory 106
Patrick Geary
The Question of Access: The Right to Social Memory versus the Right to
Social Oblivion 114
Inge Bundsgaard
Contents
Past Imperfect (l’imparfait): Mediating Meaning in Archives of Art 121
Nancy Ruth Bartlett
An Artifact by Any Other Name: Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts 134
Stephen G. Nichols
The Panoptical Archive 144
Eric Ketelaar
Archival Representation 151
Elizabeth Yakel
part iii. Archives and Social Memory
Introduction 165
Remembering the Future: Appraisal of Records and the Role of Archives in
Constructing Social Memory 169
Terry Cook
Creating a National Information System in a Federal Environment: Some Thoughts
on the Canadian Archival Information Network 182
Laura Millar
Archives, Heritage, and History 193
David Lowenthal
How Privatization Turned Britain’s Red Telephone Kiosk into an Archive of the
Welfare State 207
Patrick Wright
Archives: Particles of Memory or More? 215
Joan van Albada
Lookin’ for a Home: Independent Oral History Archives in Italy 219
Alessandro Portelli
The Public Controversy over the Kennedy Memorabilia Project 225
Robert M. Adler
Classiaed Federal Records and the End of the Cold War: The Experience of the
Assassination Records Review Board 237
William L. Joyce
“Just a Car”: The Kennedy Car, the Lincoln Chair, and the Study of Objects 245
Judith E. Endelman
part iv. Archives, Memory, and Political Culture (Canada, the Caribbean,
Western Europe, Africa, and European Colonial Archives)
Introduction 253
Memories of Colonization: Commemoration, Preservation, and Erasure in an
African Archive 257
Frederick Cooper
iv Contents
Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form 267
Ann Laura Stoler
The Provincial Archive as a Place of Memory: Confronting Oral and Written Sources
on the Role of Former Slaves in the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98) 280
Rebecca J. Scott
Maroons in the Archives: The Uses of the Past in the French Caribbean 291
Laurent Dubois
Redemption’s Archive: Remembering the Future in a Revolutionary Past 301
Paul K. Eiss
Documenting South Africa’s Liberation Movements: Engaging the Archives at the
University of Fort Hare 321
Brian Williams and William K. Wallach
“The Gift of One Generation to Another”: The Real Thing for the Pepsi Generation 333
Ian E. Wilson
Social History, Public Sphere, and National Narratives: The Social Origins of Valencian
Regional Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Spain 343
Mónica Burguera
The Inbuence of Politics on the Shaping of the Memory of States in Western
Europe (France) 353
Paule René-Bazin
The Role of the Swiss Federal Archives during Recent Politico-Historical Events
and Crises 361
Christoph Graf
Television Archives and the Making of Collective Memory: Nazism and World War II
in Three Television Blockbusters of German Public Television 368
Wulf Kansteiner
part v. Archives and Social Understanding in States Undergoing Rapid
Transition (China, Postwar Japan, Postwar Greece, Russia, Ukraine,
and the Balkans)
Introduction 379
Revolution in the Archives of Memory: The Founding of the National Diet Library in
Occupied Japan 382
Leslie Pincus
The New Masters of Memory: Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Postcommunist
Bosnia-Herzegovina 393
Robert J. Donia
Writing Home in the Archive: “Refugee Memory” and the Ethnography
of Documentation 402
Penelope Papailias
Qing Statesmen, Archivists, and Historians and the Question of Memory 417
Beatrice S. Bartlett
Contents v
The Role of Archives in Chinese Society: An Examination from the Perspective
of Access 427
Du Mei
Archives and Histories in Twentieth-Century China 436
William C. Kirby
Archives and Historical Writing: The Case of the Menshevik Party in 1917 443
Ziva Galili
Russian History: Is It in the Archives? 451
Abby Smith
Archiving Heteroglossia: Writing Reports and Controlling Mass Culture under Stalin 459
Serhy Yekelchyk
Ethnicity, Memory, and Violence: Rebections on Special Problems in Soviet and East
European Archives 466
Jeffrey Burds
Hesitations at the Door to an Archive Catalog 480
Vladimir Lapin
The Historian and the Source: Problems of Reliability and Ethics 490
Boris V. Ananich
Contributors 497
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