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Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping

Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping

Bausi, Alessandro
Brockmann, Christian
Friedrich, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures, Book 11

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 311054136X
ISBN13: 9783110541366
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Feb 19 2018
Pages: 476
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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