Records and archival arrangements in Australia are globally relevant
because Australia’s indigenous people represent the oldest living
culture in the world, and because modern Australia is an ex-colonial
society now heavily multicultural in outlook. Archives and Societal
Provenance explores this distinctiveness using the theoretical concept
of societal provenance as propounded by Canadian archival scholars led
by Dr Tom Nesmith. The book’s seventeen essays blend new writing and
re-workings of earlier work, comprising the fi rst text to apply a
societal provenance perspective to a national setting.
After a prologue by Professor Michael Moss entitled A prologue to the
afterlife, this title consists of four sections. The first considers
historical themes in Australian recordkeeping. The second covers some
of the institutions which make the Australian archival story
distinctive, such as the Australian War Memorial and prime ministerial
libraries. The third discusses the formation of archives. The fourth
and final part explores debates surrounding archives in Australia. The
book concludes by considering the notion of an archival afterlife.
* Presents material from a life’s career working and thinking about
archives and records and their multiple relationships with history,
biography, culture and society
* The first book to focus specifically on the Australian archival
scene
* Covers a wide variety of themes, including: the theoretical concept
of the records continuum; census records destruction; Prime
Ministerial Libraries; and the documentation of war
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ISBN
9781843347125
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Chandos Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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