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Book/Printed Material Manuscripts and archives : comparative views on record-keeping

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Title

  • Manuscripts and archives : comparative views on record-keeping

Summary

  • "Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as 'the general system of the formation and transformation of statements' in his 'Archaeology of knowledge' (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the 'archival turn'. In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and 'grounding' them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes)."--Publisher's website

Names

  • Bausi, Alessandro, editor
  • Brockmann, Christian, editor
  • Friedrich, Michael, 1955- editor
  • Kienitz, Sabine, 1958- editor

Created / Published

  • Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
  • ©2018

Headings

  • -  Archives--History
  • -  Archives--Philosophy
  • -  Archives--Methodology
  • -  Manuscripts
  • -  Archival materials
  • -  Archives

Notes

  • -  Eight of the papers were originally presented at a conference, Manuscripts and Archives, organized by the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, November 19-22, 2014.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xiv, 462 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • CD931

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020718245

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Friedrich, Michael, Editor, and Sabine Kienitz. Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping. editeds by Bausi, Alessandro, and Brockmann, Christian [Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, ©, 2018] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020718245/.

APA citation style:

Friedrich, M. & Kienitz, S., Bausi, A. & Brockmann, C., eds. (2018) Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping. [Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020718245/.

MLA citation style:

Friedrich, Michael, Editor, and Sabine Kienitz. Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping. ed by Bausi, Alessandro, and Brockmann, Christian [Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter, ©, 2018] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020718245/>.