Postmodernistic archival science - Rethinking the methodology of a science

Archival Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-197

  Fredriksson, Berndt ^a  

^a Ministry for Foreign Affairs   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Archival science; Empirical archival science; Foreign service; Normative archival science; Scientific methods; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944438948     PISSN: 13890166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ARCS.0000035447.05514.e5     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Terry Cook: "Archival Science and Postmodernism: New Formulations for Old Concepts", Archival Science 1 (2001): 3-24;
2. Eric Ketelaar, "Tacit Narratives: The Meanings of Archives", Archival Science 1 (2001): 131-141.
3. See e.g. Theo Thomassen: "A First Introduction to Archival Science", Archival Science 1 (2001): 373-385.
4. Angelika Menne-Haritz: "Access - the Reformulation of an archival Paradigm", Archival Science 1 (2001): 57-82.
5. Karin Åström, I allmänhetens tjänst? Arkivverket, tillgängliggörandet och brukarna (In the service of the public? The National archives, accessibility and the users), Paper for Masters degree in archival science at the University of Stockholm, fall 2002.
6. Eric Ketelaar: "The Difference Best Postponed? Cultures and Comparative Archival Science", Archivaria 44 (2000): 142-148.
7. That is e.g. what Ketelaar does in a study which aims at giving developing countries support and guidance how to build up their archival activity: Eric Ketelaar, Archival and Records Management Legislation and Regulations: A RAMP Study with Guidlines (Paris 1985).
8. The Use of Comparative History in Marco-Social Inquiry, Comparative Studies in Society and History. An International Quarterly 22 (1980): 174-197.
9. The following text is a summary of my essay on the history of the archives of the Swedish foreign ministry: En institutionell historia. UD:s arkiv i ett arkivetnologiskt perspektiv, Arkiv, samhälle och forskning 1 (2001): 7-47.