Elusive archives : material culture studies in formation

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2021 and ©2021
Subject:: Archives - Philosophy
Material culture
Information organization - Social aspects
Contributor:: Brückner, Martin, editor
Isenstadt, Sandy, editor
ISBN:: 9781644532034, 1644532034, 9781644532249, and 1644532247
Series:: Material culture perspectives
Description:: xv, 286 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: Archives in Practice. On the material culture of multispecies relating / Julian Yates ; Archive vision / Wendy Bellion ; Fugitive archives : privilege and practice / Julie L. McGee ; Touch and the making of religious material culture : visiting the Lourdes Shrine / Torsten Cress ; A historian walks into a bar... or, a story about alternative ways of finding and using archives when the normal avenues don't cut it / Cindy Ott ; Historical form(s) / Laura E. Helton -- Archives in objects. Both lost and found : a portrait of the enslaved Homer Ryan / Jennifer Van Horn ; The chaise Sandows : object as (obscured) archive / Kiersten Thamm ; Decoupage : cutting ephemera and assembling sentiment / Alexandra Ward ; Inscribe, Lord, your will in my stone heart : finding religious history in German-American illuminated manuscripts / Alexander Lawrence Ames ; The mobile architectural archive / Halina Adams ; The case of the mysterious chest-on-frame / Rosalie Hooper -- Archives in places. Refuse, relic, refuge / Sarah Wasserman ; Searching for the lost mines of Albert Bierstadt / Spencer Wigmore ; Landscapes of refuge : recovering the materiality of Underground Railroad landscapes in Delaware / Catherine Morrissey ; Desolation in crowded spaces : reconstructing the material culture of internment / Michelle Everidge ; Seeking Hózhó : the post-apocalyptic landscapes of Will Wilson's AIR Weave / Kaila T. Schedeen ; Buried archives / Lu Ann De Cunzo -- Archives in circulation. Ikuo Yokoyama's motorcycle : entropic decay and the anatomy of a disaster / Natalie Elizabeth Wright ; Fraktur : material religion and print culture in the early German-language Atlantic world / Oliver Scheiding ; John Hancock's fugitive tar / J. Ritchie Garrison ; Stability lost : monetary conditions of refugees from World War II and the Syrian Civil War / Jesse Kraft ; Inscribing sanctuary: early American buildings and apotropaic markings, 1700-1850 / Michael J. Emmons, Jr ; Bottling death and brewing resistance in temperance literature and reform / Jessica Conrad -- Afterword : Elusive archives and the poetical promise of objects / Bernard L. Herman
Summary:: 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 the disparate things studied here together are the questions the authors ask of them. Each essay creates by means of its method a provisional collection of things, an elusive archive. Scattered matter 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. The 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, building toward a new way to think about material culture
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: CD947 .E58 2021
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