Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory : essays from the Sawyer Seminar / edited by Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blouin, Francis X., editor.

Rosenberg, William G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives.

Documentation.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

documentation (activity).

Medical Subjects:

Archives.

Documentation.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Archives.

Physical Description:

ix, 502 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]

Contents:

"Something she called a fever" : Michelet, Derrida, and dust (or, In the archives with Michelet and Derrida) / Carolyn Steedman

The problem of publicité in the archives of Second Empire France / Jennifer S. Milligan

Not dragon at the gate but research partner : the reference archivist as mediator / Kathleen Marquis

Between veneration and loathing : loving and hating documents / James M. O'Toole

Archiving/architecture / Kent Kleinman

"Records of simple truth and precision" : photography, archives, and the illusion of control / Joan M. Schwartz

Out of the closet and into the archives? : German Jewish papers / Atina Grossmann

German Jewish archives in Berlin and New York : three generations after the fact / Frank Mecklenburg

Medieval archivists as authors : social memory and archival memory / Patrick Geary

The question of access : the right to social memory versus the right to social oblivion / Inge Bundsgaard

Past imperfect (l'imparfait) : mediating meaning in archives of art / Nancy Ruth Bartlett

An artifact by any other name : digital surrogates of medieval manuscripts / Stephen G. Nichols

The panoptical archive / Eric Ketelaar

Archival representation / Elizabeth Yakel

Remembering the future: appraisal of records and the role of archives in constructing social memory / Terry Cook

Creating a national information system in a federal environment : some thoughts on the Canadian Archival Information Network / Laura Millar

Archives, heritage, and history / David Lowenthal

How privatization turned Britain's red telephone kiosk into an archive of the welfare state / Patrick Wright

Archives : particles of memory or more? / Joan van Albada

Lookin' for a home : independent oral history archives in Italy / Alessandro Portelli

The public controversy over the Kennedy Memorabilia Project / Robert M. Adler

Classified federal records and the end of the Cold War : the experience of the Assassination Records Review Board / William L. Joyce

"Just a car" : the Kennedy car, the Lincoln chair, and the study of objects / Judith E. Endelman

Memories of colonization : commemoration, preservation, and erasure in an African archive / Frederick Cooper

Colonial archives and the arts of governance : on the content in the form / 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) / Rebecca J. Scott

Maroons in the archives : the uses of the past in the French Caribbean / Laurent Dubois

Redemption's archive : remembering the future in a revolutionary past / Paul K. Eiss

Documenting South Africa's liberation movements : engaging the archives at the University of Fort Hare / Brian Williams and William K. Wallach

"The gift of one generation to another" : the real thing for the Pepsi Generation / Ian E. Wilson

Social history, public sphere, and national narratives : the social origins of Valencian regional imaginary in nineteenth-century Spain / Mónica Burguera

The influence of politics on the shaping of the memory of states in western Europe (France) / Paule René-Bazin

The role of the Swiss Federal Archives during recent politico-historical events and crises / Christoph Graf

Television archives and the making of collective memory : Nazism and World War II in three television blockbusters of German Public Television / Wulf Kansteiner

Revolution in the archives of memory : the founding of the National Diet Library in Occupied Japan / Leslie Pincus

The new masters of memory : libraries, archives, and museums in postcommunist Bosnia-Herzegovina / Robert J. Donia

Writing home in the archive : "refugee memory" and the ethnography of documentation / Penelope Papailias

Qing statesmen, archivists, and historians and the question of memory / Beatrice S. Bartlett

The role of archives in Chinese society : an examination from the perspective of access / Du Mei

Archives and histories in twentieth-century China / William C. Kirby

Archives and historical writing : the case of the Menshevik Party in 1917 / Ziva Galili

Russian history : is it in the archives? / Abby Smith

Archiving heteroglossia : writing reports and controlling mass culture under Stalin / Serhy Yekelchyk

Ethnicity, memory, and violence : reflections on special problems in Soviet and East European archives / Jeffrey Burds

Hesitations at the door to an archive catalog / Vladimir Lapin

The historian and the source : problems of reliability and ethics / Boris V. Ananich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Archives, documentation, and institutions of social memory.

ISBN:

047211493X

9780472114931

OCLC:

60742074

Publisher Number:

9780472114931

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