Owning memory : how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history / Jeannette Allis Bastian.

Main entry:

Bastian, Jeannette A.

Title & Author:

Owning memory : how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history / Jeannette Allis Bastian.

Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2003.

Description:

xi, 106 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Contributions in librarianship and information science ; no. 99

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96).
A Community of Records -- How the Virgin Islands Lost Its Memory -- Reconstructing Whose Memory? Writing History -- A Community Constructs Its Memory: Commemorations -- "Go Back and Fetch It": Owning History.

Summary:

"Written from an archivist's perspective, this book examines the relationships between archives, communities, and collective memory in the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark. Because the historical records of the Virgin Islands reside primarily in Denmark and the United States, Virgin Islanders have had limited access to the primary sources of their history. This has affected their ability to write their own history and construct a collective memory. Archival expert Jeannette Bastian illuminates the story of the United States Virgin Islands and its search for its memory, including an exploration of how the community has formed its memory-to-date and the role that archives have played in this process.
Interwoven throughout is a broader analysis that considers the place of archives and archivists in helping communities find their history."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

031332008X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780313320088 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9798400694752

Subject:

Archives United States Virgin Islands.
Memory Social aspects United States Virgin Islands.
Archives Îles Vierges américaines.
06.90 archives and archive science.
Archives.
Historiography.
Memory Social aspects.
Archiv
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Archieven.
Mondelinge geschiedenis (wetenschap)
United States Virgin Islands Historiography.
Îles Vierges américaines Historiographie.
United States Virgin Islands.
Virgin Islands of the United States

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Contributions in librarianship and information science ; no. 99.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327893
Call No.: 327893
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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