We offer a constantly updated sample of readings related to archives and documentary practices.
General
- Fritzsche, Peter. "The Archive." In History & Memory 17 (2005): 15-44.
- Head, Randolph C. "Historical Research on Archives and Knowledge Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Wave." In Archival Science 10 (2010): 191–194.
- Ketelaar, Eric. "Records Out and Archives In: Early Modern Cities as Creators of Records and as Communities of Archives." In Archival Science 10 (2010): 201–210.
- Brendecke, Arndt. "‘Arca, archivillo, archivo’: The Keeping, Use and Status of Historical Documents about the Spanish Conquista." In Archival Science 10 (2010): 267–283.
Collectors and Curiosities
- Daston, Lorraine and Katharine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750. New York: Zone Books, 1998.
- Pomian, Krzysztof. Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice 1500-1800. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990.
- Belk, Russell W. Collecting in a Consumer Society. London: Routledge, 1995.
- Elsner, John and Roger Cardinal. The Cultures of Collecting. London: Reaktion Books, 1994.
- Schwartz, Janelle A. and Nhora Lucía Serrano. Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Pearce, Susan M. (ed.). Interpreting Objects and Collections. London: Routledge, 1994.
Museum studies
- Macdonald, Sharon (ed.). A Companion to Museum Studies. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.
- Knell, Simon J., Suzanne MacLeod and Sheila Watson (eds.). Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed. London-New York: Routledge, 2007.
- Sandell, Richard (ed.). Museums, Society, Inequality. London-New York: Routledge, 2002.
- Carbonell, Bettina Messias (ed.). Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
- Crane, Susan A. (ed.). Museums and Memory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Karp, Ivan, Christien Mullen Kreamer and Steven Lavine (eds.). Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington, DC-London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
- Henning, Michelle. Museums, Media and Cultural History. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006.
- Edson, Gary. Museum Ethics. London-New York: Routledge, 1997.
Memory
- Huyssen, Andreas. "Present Pasts: Media, Politics, Amnesia." In Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.
- Assmann, Aleida. "Canon and Archive." In Media and Cultural Memory, edited by Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
- Debary, Octave. "Deindustrialization and Museumification: From Exhibited Memory to Forgotten History." In Sociology of Education 2 (1996): 105-125.
- Hedstrom, Margaret. "Archives, Memory, and Interfaces with the Past." In Archival Science 2 (2002): 21-43.
- Ketelaar, Eric. "Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives." In Archival Science 1 (2001)131-141.
- Josias, Anthea. "Toward an Understanding of Archives as a Feature of Collective Memory." In Archival Science 11 (2011): 95–112.
- Flinn, Andrew, Mary Stevens and Elizabeth Shepherd. "Whose Memories, Whose Archives? Independent Community Archives, Autonomy and the Mainstream." In Archival Science 9 (2009): 71-86.
- Bastian, Jeannette A. and Ben Alexander (eds.). Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory. London: Facet, 2009.
- Van House, Nancy and Elizabeth F. Churchill. "Technologies of Memory: Key Issues and Critical Perspectives." In Memory Studies 1 (2008): 295-310.
- Bal, Meike, Jonathan V. Crewe and Leo Spitzer. Acts of Memory. Cultural Recall in the Present. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999.
Genres of documentation
- Stoler, Ann Laura (ed.). Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
- Blouin Jr., Francis X. and William G. Rosenberg (eds.). Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory: Essays from the Sawyer Seminar. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
- Riles, Annelise. Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
- Robertson, Craig. “Mechanisms of Exclusion: Historicizing the Archive and the Passport.” In Archive Stories, edited by Antoinette Burton. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, 68-86.
- Torpey, John. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Forgeries and piracy
- Bubandt, Nils. “From the Enemy’s Point of View: Violence, Empathy, and the Ethnography of Fakes.” In Cultural Anthropology 3 (2009), 553-88.
- Fahrmeir, Andreas. “Governments and Forgers: Passports in Nineteenth-century Europe.” In Documenting Individual Identity: The Development of State Practices in the Modern World, edited by Jane Caplan and John Torpey. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 218-234.
- Schwartz, Hillel. The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles. New York: Zone Books, 1996.
- Adrian Johns, "Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science." In Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Heller-Roazen, Daniel. The Enemy of Us All: Piracy and the Law of Nations. New York: Zone Books, 2009.
- Biagioli, Mario and Peter Galison. Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Micro-histories and close reading
- Zemon Davis, Natalie. Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-century France. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987.
- Agamben, Giorgio. “The Archive and Testimony.” In Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive. New York: Zone Books, 2002, 137-171.
- Papailias, Penelope. Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.