Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory

Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory

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This source explores and outlines the concept of a cultural archive. It examines how different cultures and groups celebrate their heritage and collect their memory through intangible forms of expressions as sources of archival records, such as oral traditions, performances, and memory text. Bastian uses those forms of record to demonstrate them as proof of relevance to different cultural groups. Here, she highlights the importance of community identity. Some key factors in the book include definitions of cultural heritage and archival heritage while emphasizing intangible cultural heritage. The book also offers traditional archiving research methods alongside analog and digital models to analyze both tangible and intangible forms of cultural expressions. It offers models for constructing cultural archives with different examples.

Bastian, Jeannette A.

Taylor & Francis

2023-03-29

Fabiana Aguado Manzano

Book

9781000889024

Bastian, Jeannette A. Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory. 1st ed. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2023.