Awkward Archives: Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
<p><em>Awkward Archives</em> proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their <em>awkwardness</em>—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose.</p> <p>With case studies on Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Hahne-Niehoff Archive and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, among others.</p>
Editors: Margareta von Oswald, Jonas Tinius
Contributors: Margareta von Oswald, Jonas Tinius, Bernd Scherer, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Franka Schneider, Yann LeGall, Tahani Nadim, Hannes Hacke
Translators: Adrian Bridget, Matthew James Scown
Copy Editor: Corinne Butta, Mia Jaccarini, Scott Pearsall
Designer: Untitled
Series Editor: Stefan Aue, Lama El Khatib
Managing Editor: Natalie Ruhland
Project Administrator: Anja Dunkel
Archive Books Editor: Chiara Figone, Sara Marcon
Archive Books, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
ISBN: 9783948212919