Document Type
Article
Department
English (Scripps)
Publication Date
Spring 2014
Disciplines
Anthropology | Archival Science | Arts and Humanities | Race and Ethnicity | Scholarly Communication | Scholarly Publishing
Abstract
This essay is an effort to reflect on the theoretical underpinnings and implications of both our three-month process and its product. In particular, we would like to consider how our digital book both publishes an archive and allows authors and readers to “perform archive” or enact “liveness” with the materials therein. We also want to use this as an occasion to raise questions regarding the liberal discourse of digital access that seems at times to overshadow opportunities for critical intervention at this moment of digital-archive fever. In particular, we want to bring the insights of critical race and ethnic studies to reorient the issues of archival agency, as well as consider the ways in which recent paradigm shifts in the archival practice with respect to Native American materials can contribute to the discussion in the digital humanities about issues of cultural representation and its relationship to scholarly design.
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© 2014 David J. Kim and Jaqueline Wernimont.
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Recommended Citation
Kim, David J., and Jaqueline Wernimont. " 'Performing Archive': Identity, Participation, and Responsibility in the Ethnic Archive." Archive Journal Spring 4(2014): Web.
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