Archives and Collective Memory: More than a Metaphor, Less than an Analogy

Currents of Archival Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 163-179

  Hedstrom, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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