1. THE HOUSE WHERE HISTORY ENDED UP: PACKING UP THE BEN SEGAL COLLECTION.
- Author
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Lambrechts, Lizabé
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ARCHIVES , *ARCHIVES collection management , *RECORD collecting , *FOLK music , *PERSONAL papers - Abstract
Archives are subject to various processes of collection and selection that takes place before and after a collection has been donated to an archival institution. However, the processes of packing donated material are rarely discussed in archival discourse, even though it plays an integral part in forming the archive that is eventually presented to the researcher. Taking its cue from recent calls for an ethnographic approach to studying archives, not only as places housing information but also as places worthy of interrogation, this article reflects on the processes of archive making and the experience of inspecting and collecting the Ben Segal collection, a collection of significant importance to South African folk music studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015