Kindred contexts: archives, archaeology, and the concept of provenance

IF 1.4 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Bethany G. Anderson
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Abstract

The disciplines of archives and archaeology are each about the power of context: they both preserve the context wherein objects and records are found and created to aid in their interpretation and take those materials as evidence of context. As context-based disciplines, archives and archaeology foreground the concept of provenance and construct meanings about objects and records from contextual relationships. Context, which is related to but also distinct from provenance, is difficult to disentangle from the latter. While sometimes conflated and used interchangeably, subtle differences distinguish the two concepts. This article explores the ways that archives and archaeology employ the concepts of provenance and context, and the messiness with which they do. Fundamentally, this exercise aims to understand where they might share common ground while enriching discussion and fostering introspection and cross-disciplinary exchange and suggest ways these fields might rethink and extend their own uses of these concepts.

相似的背景:档案学、考古学和出处的概念
档案学和考古学这两门学科都与背景的力量有关:它们都保存了发现和创造物品和记录的背景,以帮助对其进行解释,并将这些材料作为背景的证据。作为以语境为基础的学科,档案学和考古学强调出处的概念,并从语境关系中构建物品和记录的意义。上下文与出处既有联系又有区别,很难与后者区分开来。虽然这两个概念有时会被混淆和交替使用,但它们之间存在着微妙的区别。本文探讨了档案学和考古学使用出处和上下文概念的方式,以及它们所带来的混乱。从根本上说,本文旨在了解它们的共同点,同时丰富讨论,促进反思和跨学科交流,并提出这些领域重新思考和扩展使用这些概念的方法。
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ARCHIVAL SCIENCE
ARCHIVAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
CiteScore
2.70
自引率
18.20%
发文量
26
期刊介绍: Archival Science promotes the development of archival science as an autonomous scientific discipline. The journal covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practice. Moreover, it investigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and data. It also seeks to promote the exchange and comparison of concepts, views and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the world.Archival Science''s approach is integrated, interdisciplinary, and intercultural. Its scope encompasses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context. To meet its objectives, the journal draws from scientific disciplines that deal with the function of records and the way they are created, preserved, and retrieved; the context in which information is generated, managed, and used; and the social and cultural environment of records creation at different times and places.Covers all aspects of archival science theory, methodology, and practiceInvestigates different cultural approaches to creation, management and provision of access to archives, records, and dataPromotes the exchange and comparison of concepts, views, and attitudes related to recordkeeping issues around the worldAddresses the entire field of recorded process-related information, analyzed in terms of form, structure, and context
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