Elusive Archives

Download Elusive Archives full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Elusive Archives ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Elusive Archives

Elusive Archives
Author :
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781644532041
ISBN-13 : 1644532042
Rating : 4/5 (042 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Elusive Archives by : Martin Brückner

Download or read book Elusive Archives written by Martin Brückner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the questions authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter then becomes fixed within each author’s analytical framework rather than within the walls of an archive’s reading room or in cases along a museum corridor. This book follows the ways in which objects may be identified, gathered, arranged, conceptualized and even displayed rather than by “discovering” artifacts in an archive and then asking how they came to be there. The authors approach material culture outside the traditional bounds of learning about the past. Their essays are varied not only in subject matter but also in narrative format and conceptual reach, making the volume accessible and easy to navigate for a quick reference or, if read straight through, build toward a new way to think about material culture.


Elusive Archives Related Books

Elusive Archives
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Martin Brückner
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-27 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispers
Elusive Archives
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Martin Brückner
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-27 - Publisher: Material Culture Perspectives

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional
The Slow Failure
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Mary E. Daly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-06 - Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Today Ireland’s population is rising, immigration outpaces emigration, most families have two or at most three children, and full-time farmers are in steady d
Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Wendy Bellion
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witnesses change,
The People’s Paper
Language: en
Pages: 711
Authors: Peter Limb
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-01 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This much-awaited volume uncovers the long-lost pages of the major African multilingual newspaper, Abantu-Batho. Founded in 1912 by African National Congress (A