Description
Book SynopsisArchiving Cultures defines and models the concept of cultural archives, focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstrate their relevance as records of their communities.
Key features of this book include definitions of cultural heritage and archival heritage with an emphasis on intangible cultural heritage. Aspects of cultural heritage such as oral traditions, performance arts, memory texts and collective memory are placed within the context of records and archives. It presents strategies for reconciling intangible and tangible cultural expressions with traditional archival theory and practice and offers both analog and digital models for constructing cultural archives through examples and vignettes.
The audience includes archivists and other i
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Cultural Archives; 1. Cultural Heritage, Archival Heritage; 2. The Anatomy of an Archival Record; 3. Oral Traditions and Memory Texts; 4. Carnival in the Archives: Performance as Record; 5. Memory, Community and Records; 6. In the Cultural Archives; Index
