Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Bausi, Alessandro, editor.
Brockmann, Christian, editor.
Friedrich, Michael, 1955- editor.
Kienitz, Sabine, 1958- editor.
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| ISBN: | 3110541394
311054136X
9783110541366
9783110541571
3110541572
9783110541397
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| ISSN: | 2365-9696
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Open Access
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 1, 2018).
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| 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)"--PDF title overview
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| Other form: | Print version: 9783110541366
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| Standard no.: | 9783110541397
9783110541366
10.1515/9783110541397
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