Genres of Recollection

Abstract

ANTHROPOLOGY, HISTORY, AND THE CRITICAL IMAGINATION publishes works dealing with theoretical and methodological developments in history, anthropology, and historical anthropology. Books in the series analyze the ways in which accounts of the past are produced, circulated, and consumed in an increasingly global marketplace of commodities, identities, and cultural practices. The series is committed to making sense of the form and content of historical imagination across the world, to new ways of writing history, and to how both these concerns may animate critical currents in ethnographic method and social theory. The publisher and editors of this series seek, among other things, to foster work that might broaden dialogue between anthropologists, historians, and those from other fields who engage with both.

Media Solidarities: Emotions, Power and Justice in the Digital Age

“…15 As she further emphasizes, the archive, unlike the collection, is frequently also the product of a more "chaotic process of accreditation." 16 In short, while the documents and objects that comprise collections are usually determined at the point of entry, archives can be comprised of material artifacts that may or may not appear to contain any resemblance. Finally, Papailias privileges the term archive over collection, because it serves to highlight "the relationship -sometimes implicit and unconsciously mimetic, other times ironic and directly confrontational -which diverse documentary assemblages establish with real (or imagined) public archives."…”

“…Finally, Papailias privileges the term archive over collection, because it serves to highlight "the relationship -sometimes implicit and unconsciously mimetic, other times ironic and directly confrontational -which diverse documentary assemblages establish with real (or imagined) public archives." 17 In other words, to adopt the term archive over collection is to consciously choose to think about documentary assemblages as sites that are as much about texts and textual practices as they are about people and relations of power. Following this definition, the archive, in contrast to the collection, is referential, accumulative, and engaged in the construction of textual realities.…”

Archival Genres: Gathering Texts and Reading Spaces

“…15 As she further InVisible Culture Archival Genres: Gathering Texts and Reading Spaces 6 emphasizes, the archive, unlike the collection, is frequently also the product of a more "chaotic process of accreditation." 16 In short, while the documents and objects that comprise collections are usually determined at the point of entry, archives can be comprised of material artifacts that may or may not appear to contain any resemblance. Finally, Papailias privileges the term archive over collection, because it serves to highlight "the relationship-sometimes implicit and unconsciously mimetic, other times ironic and directly confrontational-which diverse documentary assemblages establish with real (or imagined) public archives."…”

Géneros archivísticos: recopilación de textos y espacios de lectura

“…Greece [Géneros del recuerdo. Poética de archivo y la Grecia moderna], la antropóloga Penelope Papailias (2005) ofrece una distinción útil entre archivos y meras colecciones. Haciendo referencia a la obra Desembalo mi biblioteca, de Walter Benjamin, ella les recuerda a sus lectores que los coleccionistas no veneran la tradición y su autoridad, sino que la destruyen.…”