The Faroese Cultural Archive: The Archive as a Source and Theme in Local Historical Writing
The cultural Faroese archive consists mostly of local historical writing. This article focuses on works of local history and claims that the local historical part of the archive constitutes the most extensive part of Faroese writing conventions. In publications on local history, the archive progress...
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ftvilniusunivojs:oai:ojs.www4063.vu.lt:article/32792 2023-09-26T15:17:49+02:00 The Faroese Cultural Archive: The Archive as a Source and Theme in Local Historical Writing Moberg, Bergur Rønne 2023-07-31 application/pdf https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32792 https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.12 eng eng Vilniaus universiteto leidykla / Vilnius University Press https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32792/31575 https://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/32792 doi:10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.12 Copyright (c) 2023 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Scandinavistica Vilnensis; Vol 17 No 2 (2023): Memory and Remembrance in Scandinavian Cultures: Mediating Memory [Ahead of print]; 231-252 Scandinavistica Vilnensis; T. 17 Nr. 2 (2023): Memory and Remembrance in Scandinavian Cultures: Mediating Memory [Ahead of print]; 231-252 2669-0497 2029-2112 Faroe Islands local historical writing cultural archive total archive elastic archive info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2023 ftvilniusunivojs https://doi.org/10.15388/ScandinavisticaVilnensis.2023.12 2023-08-30T23:20:39Z The cultural Faroese archive consists mostly of local historical writing. This article focuses on works of local history and claims that the local historical part of the archive constitutes the most extensive part of Faroese writing conventions. In publications on local history, the archive progresses into book form without undergoing any significant interpretation. This phenomenon is examined here as an expression of the archive as active and as an element of access, but one that is still used in a traditional cultural-historical context. However, what does “archive” really mean in this context? As a central writing convention, the cultural Faroese archive transcends common notions of the archive as collection, registration and unpublished source material. The article examines the cultural Faroese archive as both source and theme. In other words, it distinguishes between 1) the original archives as sources, which are kept in museums and libraries without being published, and 2) the use of archival sources as topics and cultural resources within published works. Through employing an elastic conception, the article understands the archive as a metaphor in Faroese writing conventions. On this basis, it argues that Aleida Assmann’s distinction between the archive as a source and subject cannot be maintained in a Faroese context because the sources per se are treated as a cultural-historical subject. Finally, it contends that the active and totalizing dimension in the cultural Faroese archive transcends abstract notions of the archive among leading archival theorists, who potentially disregard the cultural archive. Their view is countered by a study of the archive as a felt, experienced and interpreted cultural reality related to the Faroe Islands as a specific, ultraminor, geographical entity. By making geography an independent explanatory factor – and not only as a metaphor for a powerful centre and a powerless periphery, as in classical postcolonialism – it is possible to see connections between size and ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Vilnius University Press Scholarly Journals Faroe Islands Scandinavistica Vilnensis 17 2 231 252 |
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The cultural Faroese archive consists mostly of local historical writing. This article focuses on works of local history and claims that the local historical part of the archive constitutes the most extensive part of Faroese writing conventions. In publications on local history, the archive progresses into book form without undergoing any significant interpretation. This phenomenon is examined here as an expression of the archive as active and as an element of access, but one that is still used in a traditional cultural-historical context. However, what does “archive” really mean in this context? As a central writing convention, the cultural Faroese archive transcends common notions of the archive as collection, registration and unpublished source material. The article examines the cultural Faroese archive as both source and theme. In other words, it distinguishes between 1) the original archives as sources, which are kept in museums and libraries without being published, and 2) the use of archival sources as topics and cultural resources within published works. Through employing an elastic conception, the article understands the archive as a metaphor in Faroese writing conventions. On this basis, it argues that Aleida Assmann’s distinction between the archive as a source and subject cannot be maintained in a Faroese context because the sources per se are treated as a cultural-historical subject. Finally, it contends that the active and totalizing dimension in the cultural Faroese archive transcends abstract notions of the archive among leading archival theorists, who potentially disregard the cultural archive. Their view is countered by a study of the archive as a felt, experienced and interpreted cultural reality related to the Faroe Islands as a specific, ultraminor, geographical entity. By making geography an independent explanatory factor – and not only as a metaphor for a powerful centre and a powerless periphery, as in classical postcolonialism – it is possible to see connections between size and ... |
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