Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer SeminarFrancis Xavier Blouin, William G. Rosenberg 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, as well as defining 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. |
Contents
Michelet and Derrida | 4 |
of Control ཙ | 61 |
Archives in the Production of Knowledge | 85 |
Frank Mecklenburg | 101 |
Social Oblivion | 114 |
Archival Representation | 151 |
Archives and Social Memory | 165 |
on the Canadian Archival Information Network | 182 |
Remembering the Future in a Revolutionary Past | 301 |
Engaging the Archives at | 321 |
The Real Thing for the Pepsi Generation | 333 |
The Social Origins of Valencian | 343 |
The Influence of Politics on the Shaping of the Memory of States in Western | 353 |
The Role of the Swiss Federal Archives during Recent PoliticoHistorical Events | 361 |
Nazism and World War II | 368 |
Archives and Social Understanding in States Undergoing Rapid | 379 |
Archives Heritage and History | 193 |
How Privatization Turned Britains Red Telephone Kiosk into an Archive of | 207 |
Particles of Memory or More? | 215 |
The Public Controversy over the Kennedy Memorabilia Project | 225 |
The Experience of | 237 |
The Kennedy Car the Lincoln Chair and the Study of Objects | 245 |
Archives Memory and Political Culture Canada the Caribbean | 253 |
Confronting Oral and Written Sources | 280 |
The Uses of the Past in the French Caribbean | 291 |
Libraries Archives and Museums in Postcommunist | 393 |
Refugee Memory and the Ethnography | 402 |
Qing Statesmen Archivists and Historians and the Question of Memory | 417 |
An Examination from the Perspective | 427 |
The Case of the Menshevik Party in 1917 | 443 |
Writing Reports and Controlling Mass Culture under Stalin | 459 |
Hesitations at the Door to an Archive Catalog | 480 |
Contributors | 497 |
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