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Awkward ArchivesEthnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum

 - Awkward Archives
A manual for academic teaching and learning contexts.
An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their awkwardness—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose.
With case studies on Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Hahne-Niehoff Archive and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, among others.
Edited by Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius.
Contributions by Margareta von Oswald, Jonas Tinius, Bernd Scherer, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Franka Schneider, Yann LeGall, Tahani Nadim, Hannes Hacke.
 
published in March 2023
English edition
23 x 28 cm
234 pages
 
12.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-948212-92-9
EAN : 9783948212929
 
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