Archival labyrinth
Words, Things and Bodies in Epistemic Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4448037 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Cox Hall (0000-0001-7002-9317, Amherst College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 170-185 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2572-9861 • E-ISSN: 2572-9861 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/25729861.2018.1514713 |
| OpenAlex | W2895945352 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
Examining research conducted by the author in 2006, 2007 and 2017 at Yale University’s Manuscripts and Archives, and focused particularly on letters as interlocutors and informants, this article demonstrates the ways in which archival research is ethnographic and labyrinthine. Situated in science and technology studies, and drawing on the work of Karen Barad and Tim Ingold, archival research is posited less as discoverable clues and lost traces than as threads of inquiry bursting with possibility, uncertainty and potential for sense making. In the process of working in the archival labyrinth, the researcher, the works and the archive are transformed
Epistemology · Ethnography · Situated · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
Impolite Learning
Phantoms of Remembrance
The textility of making
Science in the Archives
Life of Paper
Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method
Things That Talk
Pump and Circumstance
The Alchemy of Empire
Improvising Theory
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Colonial archives and the arts of governance
The (W)hole in the Archive
Along the Archival Grain
Lines
That's enough about ethnography
An Excess of Description
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |