026 ARC Archives, Documentation and Institutions of Social Memory / ed.: F. X. Blouin, W. G. Rosenberg. - Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2006. - 502 p. - ISBN 978-0-472-03270-9. - ISBN 978-0-472-11493-1. - Текст : непосредственный. Contributors : p. 497 - 502
Archives and Archiving Archives in the Production of Knowledge Archives and Social Memory Archives, Memory, and Political Culture (Canada, the Caribean, Western Europe, Africa, and European Colonial Archives) Archives and Social Understanding in States Undergoing Rapid Transition (China, Postwar Japan, Postwar Greece, Russia, Ukraine, and the Balkans)
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
