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Cultivating Our Garden: Archives, Community, and Documentation

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Abstract

Archivists have long shown an interest in documenting communities and in working with underdocumented communities. Planning such efforts should call into play a wide variety of intellectual and philosophical issues: identity, memory, epistemology, and even truth. A recent collaboration of state historic records advisory boards (SHRABs) in North Dakota and Minnesota examined these issues in a study of agriculture and rural life in the Red River Valley. After working with a wide variety of constituencies, the SHRABs began to analyze how to translate what they learned into the everyday routine of archival practices, with particular references to communities, costs, and benefits.

How to Cite:

Horton, R., (2001) “Cultivating Our Garden: Archives, Community, and Documentation”, Archival Issues 26(1), 27–40. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10898