Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives

Ketelaar, Eric

2001-06

Citation: Ketelaar, Eric; (2001). "Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives." Archival Science 1 (2): 131-141. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41812>

Abstract: Archivists and historiansusually consider archives as repositories ofhistorical sources and the archivist as aneutral custodian. Sociologists andanthropologists see ``the archive'' also as asystem of collecting, categorizing, andexploiting memories. Archivists are hesitantlyacknowledging their role in shaping memories. Iadvocate that archival fonds, archivaldocuments, archival institutions, and archivalsystems contain tacit narratives which must bedeconstructed in order to understand themeanings of archives.

ISSN: 1389-0166, 1573-7519

DOIs: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1012226609547

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41812

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