Locating Archives within the Landscape:  Records, Memory and Place

Jeannette Bastian

doi:10.5130/phrj.v21i0.3822

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Published: Dec 28, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v21i0.3822

Keywords:

Archives, memory, cultural landscape

Jeannette Bastian

Simmons College

Abstract

Linking archives, memory and landscape, this article considers a series of questions, and attempts to address some of them: How do archivists and scholars who concern themselves with archives think about place and its relationship to records? Why and how is place archival? How are those archival relationships expressed and what do they signify for the people inhabiting that space? What are the memory implications of the relationship between place, archives and community and how are traditional archives both the products of place as well as influencers themselves upon the landscape?

Issue

Vol. 21 (2014)

Section

Archives, Memory and Place from the Canberra Perspective (PEER REVIEWED)

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