1st Edition

Engaging with Records and Archives Histories and theories

312 Pages

by Facet Publishing

Description

This collection provides a multifaceted response to today's growing fascination with the idea of the archive and showcases the myriad ways in which archival ideas and practices are being engaged with and developed by emerging and internationally renowned scholars. Engaging with Records and Archives offers a selection of original, insightful and imaginative papers from the Seventh... Read more

Introduction - Fiorella Foscarini, Heather Macneil, Bonnie Mak, and Gillian Oliver PART 1: RETHINKING HISTORIES AND THEORIES 1. Moving the Margins to the Middle: Reconciling ‘the Archive’ with the Archives - Jeannette Bastian 2. Organisms, Skeletons, and the Archivist as Paleontologist: Metaphors of Archival Order and Reconstruction in Context - Juan Ilerbaig 3. 'Records in Context' in Context: A Brief History of Data Modeling for Archival Description - Jonathan Furner 4. Mapping Archival Silence: Technology and the Historical Record - Marlene Manoff 5. Hidden Voices in the Archives: Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England - Elizabeth Shepherd PART 2: ENGAGING RECORDS AND ARCHIVES 6. The Use and Reuse of Documents by Chancellors, Archivists and Government Members in an Early Modern Republican State: Genoa’s Giunta dei Confini and Its Archives - Stefano Gardini 7. The Bumpy Road to Transparency: Access and Secrecy in 19th-Century Records in the Dutch East Indies - Charles Jeurgens 8. Archival Ethics and Indigenous Justice: Conflict or Coexistence? - Melanie Delva and Melissa Adams 9. History and Development of Information and Recordkeeping in Malawi - Paul Lihoma 10. History of Community Archiving in Poland - Magdalena Wiśniewska 11. Reflecting on Practice: Artists’ Experiences in the Archives - Sian Vaughan