Manuscripts and archives: comparative views on record-keeping

"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 ar...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bausi, Alessandro 1963- (HerausgeberIn), Brockmann, Christian 1960- (HerausgeberIn), Friedrich, Michael (HerausgeberIn), Kienitz, Sabine 1958- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter [2018]
Schriftenreihe:Studies in manuscript cultures volume 11
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Zusammenfassung:"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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 462 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9783110541366
9783110541397
9783110541571
DOI:10.1515/9783110541397