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This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records.



Table of Contents
Preface A Community of Records How the Virgin Islands Lost Its Memory Reconstructing Whose Memory? Writing History A Community Constructs Its Memory: Commemorations 'Go Back and Fetch It': Owning History Selected Bibliography

Owning Memory

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    Publisher: ABC-CLIO
    Publication Date: 8/30/2003 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780313320088, 978-0313320088
    ISBN10: 031332008X
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records.



    Table of Contents
    Preface A Community of Records How the Virgin Islands Lost Its Memory Reconstructing Whose Memory? Writing History A Community Constructs Its Memory: Commemorations 'Go Back and Fetch It': Owning History Selected Bibliography

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