Owning memory : how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history / Jeannette Allis...
Owning memory : how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history / Jeannette Allis...
Owning memory : how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history / Jeannette Allis Bastian.
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. ; London : Libraries Unlimited, 2003.
Date
2003.
Call Numbers
T0380312
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 106 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. A Community of Records -- 2. How the Virgin Islands Lost Its Memory -- 3. Reconstructing Whose Memory? Writing History -- 4. A Community Constructs Its Memory: Commemorations -- 5. "Go Back and Fetch It": Owning History.
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Publisher
Westport, Conn. ; London : Libraries Unlimited, 2003.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
2003.
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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 p...
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Owning memory : how a Caribbean community lost its archives and found its history / Jeannette Allis Bastian.
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Contributions in librarianship and information science ; no. 99.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [91]-96).
Transferred from N027.07297/1.
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T0380312
Record Identifier
74VK26Xb2ExZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK26Xb2ExZ
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ISBN
031332008X (pbk. : alk. paper) :
DDC
027.0729722
MMS ID
991017956479702626
