This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during 2020 on family papers passed to his care following his parents’ deaths, conscious in doing so that many of the baby boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964) must be undertaking similar exercises and facing similar needs for decisions about the legacy of the last truly analog generation. The resulting autoethnography draws on his own family story, the emotional experience of working on the papers, archival theory, biographies, and autobiographies. The reflections are structured around the three options all families face in actively dealing with their archives: to cull them; to seek to outsource or deprivatize their custody to a library, ...
In the first part of this article the author presents the phenomena, appearing in a family, for the...
Dans cet article, la mémoire familiale est appréhendée à partir de récits de frères et soeurs adulte...
What do our possessions say about us? More specifically what do they say about our past, present and...
This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during ...
This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during ...
This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during ...
Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case stud...
The object of this two years master's thesis has been to study a specific genre of personal archives...
Ongoing efforts to redefine and deconstruct the boundaries of archival theory are increasingly empha...
By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explo...
By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explo...
By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explo...
The article describes the family archives and libraries in the context of collective, family memorie...
Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case stud...
Dans cet article, la mémoire familiale est appréhendée à partir de récits de frères et soeurs adulte...
In the first part of this article the author presents the phenomena, appearing in a family, for the...
Dans cet article, la mémoire familiale est appréhendée à partir de récits de frères et soeurs adulte...
What do our possessions say about us? More specifically what do they say about our past, present and...
This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during ...
This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during ...
This article presents reflections prompted after the writer, a retired archivist, began work during ...
Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case stud...
The object of this two years master's thesis has been to study a specific genre of personal archives...
Ongoing efforts to redefine and deconstruct the boundaries of archival theory are increasingly empha...
By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explo...
By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explo...
By considering a set of in-depth interviews with eight bereaved mothers, this article seeks to explo...
The article describes the family archives and libraries in the context of collective, family memorie...
Using an interdisciplinary research methodology across three archaeological and historical case stud...
Dans cet article, la mémoire familiale est appréhendée à partir de récits de frères et soeurs adulte...
In the first part of this article the author presents the phenomena, appearing in a family, for the...
Dans cet article, la mémoire familiale est appréhendée à partir de récits de frères et soeurs adulte...
What do our possessions say about us? More specifically what do they say about our past, present and...