Response to comment on Ward et al.’s ‘Insights into the procurement and distribution of fossiliferous chert artefacts across southern Australia from the archival record’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Ingrid Ward ◽  
Michael O’Leary ◽  
Marcus Key ◽  
Annie Carson
Keyword(s):  
Archival Record

Memory, Oral History and the End of Slavery in Tanzania: Some Methodological Considerations

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Georg Deutsch
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Considerations

This chapter explores how the end of slavery is remembered in Tanzania. While the subject of ‘The end of slavery in Africa’ has attracted a substantial number of outstanding scholars, few researchers have conducted oral interviews, especially in East Africa. The author undertook field research, collecting contemporary memories of the end of slavery over a period of three months in the mid-1990s in various parts of Tanzania. The interviews were meant to complement archival research. The chapter shows that the memory of the end of slavery and the archival record fail to correspond with each other, and offers an explanation of why this is the case.

Double alienation

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-117
Author(s):  
Christopher Morton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Similar Time ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Archival Record

The starting point for this chapter is the observation that the photographs that Evans-Pritchard took of the Azande are quite different in nature from those he took of the Nuer. This opens up a complex area of photographic investigation. Why should they be so different, given that they were taken by the same fieldworker, and at a similar time? The argument put forward is that Evans-Pritchard’s fieldwork photography is marked by differently patterned indigenous responses to the camera. The chapter argues that such differences as exist boil down to very different historical and cultural relations to outside influences within Zande and Nuer society in the early 1930s, and that this is inscribed within the archival record, played out in modes of self-presentation to Evans-Pritchard’s camera.

How Hitler Nearly Destroyed the Great American Novel

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-234
Author(s):  
Ryan Holiday
Keyword(s):  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
John Fante ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
Second World

Investigative journalist Holiday scrutinizes the archival record to clarify the collision of historical forces that long haunted the trajectory of Ask the Dust. Informed by primary research into the John Fante papers at UCLA Library Special Collections and beyond, this essay explains how in falling victim to political pressures of the Second World War, the novel gains significance that remains relevant to our own age today. Before Mussolini’s fascist censors targeted Fante’s writings, agents of Adolf Hitler were hijacking the attention of Fante’s editor and draining the assets of his publisher for releasing an unauthorized, unexpurgated edition of the dictator’s notorious Mein Kampf in a legal case that went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The issues involved in that case and their effects upon Ask the Dust teach us as much about Fante’s day and age as about our own era of alt-right provocateurship and #atnoplatform.

User Beware: Evaluating the Archival Record

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Sheila Curran Bernard ◽  
Kenn Rabin
Keyword(s):  
Archival Record

scholarly journals The inventories of the Madre de Deus

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Elsje van Kessel
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article examines the impact made by the taking of the ship Madre de Deus in 1592 on the circulation of Asian material culture in England. As a Portuguese cargo ship on its way from Goa, the Madre de Deus was filled with precious and exotic objects – an immense treasure for the English privateers who seized it. An examination of the extensive archival record generated by the ship’s capture allows for a reconstruction of the cargo. Probing inventories and other documents for their material and formal qualities as much as for their contents, the article argues that written documents became an instrument with which the English authorities tried to control the uncontrollable movements of the booty. The pathways subsequently followed by some of the items recovered are traced, and the question of how they affected England’s artistic culture is addressed.

Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Fresa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
Culturally Connected ◽  
The Many ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Scientific Value

The amount of data produced by the Cultural Heritage sector is continually increasing thanks to the numerous initiatives put in place by the cultural institutions for the digitization of their content. This process has also been accelerated by the emergence of cultural portals including regional, national and thematic portals and the European cultural portal Europeana. The Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) sector also has the challenge of the complexity of the information itself. This is because of the relationship that each cultural object has with the collections it is part of, with the memory institutions where it is held, with the other objects of the same nature and/or culturally connected with it, and the many other types of relationships that represent the real scientific value of the digitised cultural object (be it a book, an archival record, an artefact from a museum, a sound recording or a video). Further, the investment in the production of the digital cultural heritage data is extremely high because the description of each object requires the human intervention of experts in the sector in order to associate the necessary metadata. Automatic extraction of knowledge (metadata) from the digital representation of cultural items is still far from being at a production level. It is not yet commonly available or seamless to the cultural institutions that are engaged in the digitisation of their collections. In addition to the DCH content that derive from digitisation processes applied to the tangible heritage, also born digital cultural heritage is more and more a reality, particularly in the artistic scenario. Plastic artists are commonly using 3D modelling for their studies. Architects, writers, multimedia artists, graphic designers and almost all other artistic expressions produce data that need to be preserved for the researchers of today and for the future generations. Digital cultural data is therefore extremely precious and its preservation is more and more an imperative priority. This paper intends to discuss these matters in the light of the ongoing work carried out by the DCH-RP project ( www.dch-rp.eu ) funded by the European Commission.

Narrating Brunei: Travelling histories of Brunei Indians

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 718-764 ◽  
Author(s):  
SRIDEVI MENON
Keyword(s):  
Historical Record ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Narrative Agency ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Petroleum Company

AbstractBetween the late 1950s and the 1960s, a significant community of Indians appeared in Seria, an oil town in Brunei. Most of these Indians were recruited from India by the British Malayan Petroleum Company to staff its company offices in the wake of the rehabilitation of the Seria oilfields after the end of the Japanese occupation of Borneo. However, in official hagiographies of the Sultanate and historical accounts of Brunei, the Indians of Seria are invisible. Juxtaposed against this silence in the historical record, I pose the narrative agency of these Indians in asserting their place in the emergence of the modern state of Brunei and in historicizing their presence in a frontier oil town in Borneo. This article is based on extensive fieldwork in India, where most of these Indians retired to after decades of expatriate life in Brunei. Recalling their work and youth in Seria, they collectively claim an ‘origin’ in Seria while improvising a Brunei-Indian diaspora in India through their shared memories. In the absence of an archival record for the Indians in Seria, this article seeks to affirm the historical value of story-telling and diasporic remembering in recording a partisan genealogy of migration and settlement.

Complicating Jamaica’s Morant Bay Rebellion: Jewish radicalism, Asian indenture, and multi-ethnic histories of 1865

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-223
Author(s):  
Mimi Sheller
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Ethnic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
Morant Bay Rebellion ◽  
Colonial Histories

The 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica has generally been interpreted as a struggle between the post-emancipation Black peasantry and the white colonial government, which led to a violent confrontation, military suppression, and the demise of the Jamaican House of Assembly in favor of direct Crown Colony rule. Yet, the archival record shows other more complex currents that were also at play, including multi-racial, cross-class alliances, and strong conflicts over local politics, corruption, and labor rights. This article focuses on a little noted aspect of the events of 1865: the arrest for sedition of Sidney Lindo Levien, a Jewish newspaper publisher of The County Union. Levien advocated for the poor, foreigners, and women; joined the Underhill Meetings supporting the political rights of the vast majority of people emancipated from slavery; and was arrested under martial law during the rebellion and later found guilty of sedition, serving nearly 7 months in prison of a 1 year sentence before being pardoned. Drawing on his own writings, photographs, family genealogy, and Levien’s hitherto unknown “Chronicle of 1865,” I argue that his story opens new questions about the relation between Jews and Baptists, Black and “Coloured,” Asian and Maroon, and varied elite and non-elite “White” populations in Jamaica, taking us beyond the typical Black-vs-white framing of the Morant Bay Rebellion toward a more multi-sided emphasis on cross-racial protest and multi-denominational resistance within the imperial global economy. Both dominant “White” colonial histories and subsequent Jamaican “Black” national histories have erased the more diverse actors and cross-cutting interests that shaped the events of 1865, which only come into view through a multi-ethnic history of global mobilities and shifting identities, which I refer to as a critical cosmopolitan perspective.

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