What are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader

摘要

When asked to review this book, I was intrigued. As a museum curator, I have been struck by the growth of the discipline of museum studies, such that Ashgate's Bibliography of Museum Studies (Knell, 1994) lists over 4000 entries, while the same publisher produced Grasping the World (Preziosi, D. and C. Farago, C, 2004) to introduce "the reader to the intense investigation of the modern European idea of the museum that has taken place over the last fifty years." I therefore hoped to get an insight into the thinking going on in a sibling profession and to discover whether both were on the same or different trajectories.