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Podcast: New Books in Library Science
Episode: Jeannette A. Bastian, "Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory" (Routledge, 2023)
Description: “Archivists feel that what their mission is, is to document society. And the question is: how can you document society if you only look at or value or preserve—maybe value is the right word—a particular segment of the expressions of society?”In Archiving Cultures: Heritage, Community and the Making of Records and Memory (Routledge, 2023), Jeannette Bastian 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 demonstr...