Archiving Caribbean Identity

Records, Community, and Memory
Herausgeber: Bastian, Jeannette A.; Griffin, Stanley Hazley; Aarons, John

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Produktbeschreibung

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the â caribbeanizationâ of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Archives
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 179mm x 236mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780367615116
• ISBN-10: 0367615118
• Artikelnr.: 70349490

Autorenporträt

John A. Aarons, now retired, was Executive Director of the National Library of Jamaica (1992-2002), Government Archivist of Jamaica (2002-2008), and University Archivist of the University of the West Indies (2009-2014). Jeannette A. Bastian is Emerita Professor at Simmons University. She is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Library and Information at the University of the West Indies. Stanley H. Griffin is Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Matters (Humanities), and Lecturer in Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Department of Library and Information Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Tangible and Intangible Formats: Chapter 1. Soca and
collective memory; Savannah Grass as an archive of Carnival; Chapter 2.
Jamaican twitter as a repository for documenting memory and social
resistance: Listening to the "articulate minority"; Chapter 3. Singing Our
Caribbean Identity: Programming the UWI, Mona Festival of the Nine Lessons
with Carols; Chapter 4. Archives "cast in stone": Memorials as memory;
Chapter 5. Landscape as record: Archiving the Antigua Recreation Ground;
Chapter 6. Concert Dance in Barbados as Archive: Dancing the national
narratives; Chapter 7. Remembering an art exhibit: The Face of Jamaica,
1963-1964; Chapter 8. Traditional and new record sources in geointerpretive
methods for reconstructing biophysical history: Whither Withywood; Part II.
Collections Through a Caribbean Lens: Chapter 9. Resistance in/and the
Pre-Emancipation Archives; Chapter 10. Postcolonial philately as memory and
history: Stamping a new identity for Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 11.
Recasting Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody (1900 - 1984): An archival
homecoming; Chapter 12. St. Lucian memory and identity through the eyes of
John Robert Lee; Chapter 13. Crop Over and Carnival in the archives of
Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 14. Ecclesiastical Records as
Sources of Social History; The Anglican Church of Trinidad and Tobago;
Chapter 15. Erasure and retention in Jamaica's official memory; The case of
the disappearing telegrams; Index.