The article primarily revolves around a more nuance and multi - modal approach to archives. Essentially it argues that archives are not bounded or fixed entities that are constructed primarily of material documents and a single interpretation of a researcher using them. Instead, the authors put forwar the argument that archives are in a constant process of negotiation between institutional factors that seek to bound it within a framework and decentralized actors and forces that push for diversity. The ethnographic archive, therefore, is in man ways a decolonization project, speaking back to the homogenizing narrative of the state, essentialization of meaning and understanding of ethnographic and archive date as processes of collection, appropriation and linear representation.
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