1st Edition
Archiving Cultures Heritage, community and the making of records and memory
By Jeannette A. Bastian
Copyright 2023
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
126 Pages
by
Routledge
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Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstrate their relevance as records of their communities.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Cultural Archives; 1. Cultural Heritage, Archival Heritage; 2. The Anatomy of an Archival Record; 3. Oral Traditions and Memory Texts; 4. Carnival in the Archives: Performance as Record; 5. Memory, Community and Records; 6. In the Cultural Archives; Index
Biography
Jeannette A. Bastian is a Professor Emerita at the School of Library and Information Science, Simmons University. A former Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands, she holds an MPhil from the University of the West Indies and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.
