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Archive Ethnography: What concepts, ideas and examples from this text contribute to the theory of archive ethnography?

What concepts, ideas and examples from this text contribute to the theory and practice of archive ethnography?In particular, I liked this quote from the piece, “In order to truly have the archive speak for itself, it should be made to speak for itself” (Vivaldi & Phillips, p. 75). I found this line to be provocative in terms of how Vivaldi and Phillips demonstrate that ethnographic materials collected through fieldwork not only serve as reflections of a memory—specific moments in time—but can be reshaped and reimagined to say something about the present, that can inspire or create memories for contemporary publics. Archives do not necessarily have to be static materials that leave the speaking to others (e.g. scholarly interpretation via academic publications), but through active arrangement like that of an installation, an archive can “speak for itself.”

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