Manuscripts and Archives - Comparative Views on Record-Keeping (Hardcover)

Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studies in Manuscript Cultures
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Alessandro Bausi • Christian Brockmann • Michael Friedrich • Sabine Kienitz
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	476
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-054136-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Promotions
LSN:	3-11-054136-X
Barcode:	9783110541366

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!