Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of Wrecks
Archives are not all the time talking about themselves—as if a self might be forced on them until their disappearance. Why are we so much into archives, museums, collections, and accumulation? What is the purpose of individual and public archives? How are they imagined, built and used? What are the...
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National Museum of the Romanian Peasant
2019-11-01
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| description | Archives are not all the time talking about themselves—as if a self might be forced on them until their disappearance. Why are we so much into archives, museums, collections, and accumulation? What is the purpose of individual and public archives? How are they imagined, built and used? What are the ends of archives and museums in an era of breaking off with the past?
The paper aims to discuss some possible answers to these questions. It scrutinizes the ways in which archives are storage places and knowledge producers, as well as the manners in which they are and can be instrumentalized. It will examine the meanings of archives and museums in post-colonial, neo-colonial and national environments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-10080c75a45549ae83d9883c30f701362022-12-21T22:46:36ZengNational Museum of the Romanian PeasantMartor1224-62712019-11-01244354Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of WrecksAlexandru Iorga0University of Bucharest & “Constantin Brăiloiu” Institute for Ethnography and Folklore, RomaniaArchives are not all the time talking about themselves—as if a self might be forced on them until their disappearance. Why are we so much into archives, museums, collections, and accumulation? What is the purpose of individual and public archives? How are they imagined, built and used? What are the ends of archives and museums in an era of breaking off with the past? The paper aims to discuss some possible answers to these questions. It scrutinizes the ways in which archives are storage places and knowledge producers, as well as the manners in which they are and can be instrumentalized. It will examine the meanings of archives and museums in post-colonial, neo-colonial and national environments.http://martor.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/archive/martor-24-2019/04_alex-iorga/archivesruinsknowledge productionmuseumsanthropology and ethnology |
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| title | Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of Wrecks |
| title_full | Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of Wrecks |
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| title_short | Archives as Ruins: Means of Understanding the Future in an Era of Wrecks |
| title_sort | archives as ruins means of understanding the future in an era of wrecks |
| topic | archives ruins knowledge production museums anthropology and ethnology |
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