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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Archival Theory"”.
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Exploring archive value: an axiological approach
… of this thesis is to explore a key concept in archival theory and practice, namely the value of archives. The underlying principle is that by drawing upon ideas from outside of the archival discipline – from axiology – this concept can be examined in an innovative and reflective manner. The …
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A study of the theory of appraisal for selection
Appraisal for selection is a vital archival function that demarcates knowledge of our past and influences our ability to form our future. Present archival theory, however, includes a profusion of conflicting and ambiguous criteria and terminology that correspond to the imprecise conceptualization …
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Multiculturalism and archives
… of multiculturalism for the management of archival material generated by private individuals, groups, and organizations in Canada. The study begins with an analysis of the history and nature of the concept of multiculturalism to identify the principles and purposes underlying both the …
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Archival Vagabonds: 20th-Century American Fiction and the Archive in Novelistic Practice
My research explores the interplay between the archival and aesthetic sensibilities of novelists not typically associated with archival practices--Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Jack Kerouac. In juxtaposing their dual roles as public novelists and private archivists, I expose how …
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Art at Ashland Farm: the collection of Sarah Avery Key Patten
… and Martha Walter. Using the principles of archival theory to inform the study, each piece by these three artists was documented by completing Smithsonian Museum of American Art Inventory of American Painting information forms, and detailed digital photography, where possible. The report …
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Accountability in archival science
… and accessibility of non-current records in archival repositories is similarly related to the principle of accountability; however this idea is not widely diffused and even less accepted, primarily because the concept of accountability is imprecise and has not been integrated into archival …
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Phallic metaphors and feminist perspectives : unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through historiographic technique and studio practice
… historiography, material culture studies, and archival theory, the project interrogates Carl Linnaeus' (1707-1778) sexual system of plant classification, arguing that its metaphorical alignment of botanical reproduction with human marriage naturalised and reinforced patriarchal social …
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Memory, History, and Forgetting in the Sandra Allen Collection of Papers on Mormonism: A Feminist Rhetorical Historiography of Institutional Intervention in the Equal Rights Amendment
<p>This dissertation leverages archival theory, public memory theory, feminist historiography, and rhetorical theory to argue that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reinterpreted the Mormon past to engender identification and foster political action during the Equal Rights Amendment …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… and explicit barriers to access within the archival space, how can we hypothesize—or critically fabulate—queer material legacies? The first—or earliest extant—American film to explicitly depict “queer” sex is The Surprise of a Knight (1929). By synthesizing perspectives on archives, material …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… the early 20th century Pacific emerge out of archival productions that decontextualized political economic upheavals, as the island of Luzon became repurposed into a commodity producing colony. Industrial empires, nationalist political elites, rural intellectuals, migrant peasants, and …