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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