Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory
| Titel: | Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory : essays from the Sawyer Seminar / edited by Francis X. Blouin... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Ann Arbor, Mich. : Univ. of Michigan Press, 2006 |
| Umfang: | IX, 502 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 047211493X ; 9780472114931 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Part I
- Archives and Archiving
- Introduction
- p. 1
- "Something She Called a Fever": Michelet, Derrida, and Dust (Or, in the Archives with Michelet and Derrida)
- p. 4
- The Problem of Publicite in the Archives of Second Empire France
- p. 20
- Not Dragon at the Gate but Research Partner: The Reference Archivist as Mediator
- p. 36
- Between Veneration and Loathing: Loving and Hating Documents
- p. 43
- Archiving/Architecture
- p. 54
- "Records of Simple Truth and Precision": Photography, Archives, and the Illusion of Control
- p. 61
- Part II
- Archives in the Production of Knowledge
- Introduction
- p. 85
- Out of the Closet and into the Archives? German Jewish Papers
- p. 89
- German Jewish Archives in Berlin and New York: Three Generations after the Fact
- p. 101
- Medieval Archivists as Authors: Social Memory and Archival Memory
- p. 106
- The Question of Access: The Right to Social Memory versus the Right to Social Oblivion
- p. 114
- Past Imperfect (l'imparfait): Mediating Meaning in Archives of Art
- p. 121
- An Artifact by Any Other Name: Digital Surrogates of Medieval Manuscripts
- p. 134
- The Panoptical Archive
- p. 144
- Archival Representation
- p. 151
- Part III
- Archives and Social Memory
- Introduction
- p. 165
- Remembering the Future: Appraisal of Records and the Role of Archives in Constructing Social Memory
- p. 169
- Creating a National Information System in a Federal Environment: Some Thoughts on the Canadian Archival Information Network
- p. 182
- Archives, Heritage, and History
- p. 193
- How Privatization Turned Britain's Red Telephone Kiosk into an Archive of the Welfare State
- p. 207
- Archives: Particles of Memory or More?
- p. 215
- Lookin' for a Home: Independent Oral History Archives in Italy
- p. 219
- The Public Controversy over the Kennedy Memorabilia Project
- p. 225
- Classified Federal Records and the End of the Cold War: The Experience of the Assassination Records Review Board
- p. 237
- "Just a Car": The Kennedy Car, the Lincoln Chair, and the Study of Objects
- p. 245
- Part IV
- Archives, Memory, and Political Culture (Canada, the Caribbean, Western Europe, Africa, and European Colonial Archives)
- Introduction
- p. 253
- Memories of Colonization: Commemoration, Preservation, and Erasure in an African Archive
- p. 257
- Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form
- p. 267
- 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)
- p. 280
- Maroons in the Archives: The Uses of the Past in the French Caribbean
- p. 291
- Redemption's Archive: Remembering the Future in a Revolutionary Past
- p. 301
- Documenting South Africa's Liberation Movements: Engaging the Archives at the University of Fort Hare
- p. 321
- "The Gift of One Generation to Another": The Real Thing for the Pepsi Generation
- p. 333
- Social History, Public Sphere, and National Narratives: The Social Origins of Valencian Regional Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Spain
- p. 343
- The Influence of Politics on the Shaping of the Memory of States in Western Europe (France)
- p. 353
- The Role of the Swiss Federal Archives during Recent Politico-Historical Events and Crises
- p. 361
- Television Archives and the Making of Collective Memory: Nazism and World War II in Three Television Blockbusters of German Public Television
- p. 368
- Part V
- Archives and Social Understanding in States Undergoing Rapid Transition (China, Postwar Japan, Postwar Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and the Balkans)
- Introduction
- p. 379
- Revolution in the Archives of Memory: The Founding of the National Diet Library in Occupied Japan
- p. 382
- The New Masters of Memory: Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Postcommunist Bosnia-Herzegovina
- p. 393
- Writing Home in the Archive: "Refugee Memory" and the Ethnography of Documentation
- p. 402
- Qing Statesmen, Archivists, and Historians and the Question of Memory
- p. 417
- The Role of Archives in Chinese Society: An Examination from the Perspective of Access
- p. 427
- Archives and Histories in Twentieth-Century China
- p. 436
- Archives and Historical Writing: The Case of the Menshevik Party in 1917
- p. 443
- Russian History: Is It in the Archives?
- p. 451
- Archiving Heteroglossia: Writing Reports and Controlling Mass Culture under Stalin
- p. 459
- Ethnicity, Memory, and Violence: Reflections on Special Problems in Soviet and East European Archives
- p. 466
- Hesitations at the Door to an Archive Catalog
- p. 480
- The Historian and the Source: Problems of Reliability and Ethics
- p. 490
- Contributors
- p. 497