Jeannette A. Bastian

Archiving Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Heritage, community and the making of records and memory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Defines and models the concept of a 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000889055
• Artikelnr.: 67621115

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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