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Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography - Potential History (Hardcover)
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Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography - Potential History (Hardcover)
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This book aims to demonstrate how scholars in recent times have
been utilizing egodocuments from various angles and providing an
opening for the multivocality of the sources to be fully
appreciated. The first part of the book is concerned with the
significance of egodocuments, both for the individual him/herself
who creates such documents, and also for the other, who receives
them. The author approaches the subject on the basis of his own
personal experience, and goes on to discuss the importance of such
documents for the academic world, emphasizing more general
questions and issues within the fields of historiography,
philosophy of history, microhistory, and memory studies. The second
part of the book is based upon a photographic collection - an
archive - that belonged to the author's grandfather, who over
decades accumulated photographs of vagabonds and outsiders. This
part seeks to explore what kind of knowledge can be applied when a
single source - an archive, document, letter, illustration, etc. -
is examined, and whether the knowledge derived may not be quite as
good in its own context as in the broader perspective.
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