Pillage in the Archives: The Whereabouts of Guatemalan Documentary Treasures

Kramer, Wendy; Lovell, W. George; Lutz, Christopher H.

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“…The problem of the dispersal of cultural heritage as a consequence of colonization, widely debated in academic literature, has been reopened thanks to the new possibilities of virtual repatriation in the light of digital technologies. 56 In the case of Francophone West Africa's audiovisual heritage, much of the archival material is in France. INA, heavily involved in projects to safeguard material, holds numerous documents in its collections which were recorded in the region.…”

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Preserving Public Broadcasting Archives in the Digital Era: Circulatory Stories and Technologies, the Digital Turn, and the Return of the Past in West Africa

Losch¹

2020

Hist. Afr.

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Abstract:Broadcasting archives have been being digitized in West Africa since the 2000s. Their digital transfer, presented as both a solution to their decay and a necessary step to take them into the new century, presents considerable challenges. This article, while emphasizing the historiographical value of the archives as sources and traces, argues that the processes they undergo, which also participate in these technical objects’ afterlife, are connected to a long and circulatory history of cooperation in broadcasting. Located at the interface of past, present, and future, they also provide an opportunity to question certain geopolitical fracture lines, especially those of knowledge and memory.

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Preserving Public Broadcasting Archives in the Digital Era: Circulatory Stories and Technologies, the Digital Turn, and the Return of the Past in West Africa

Losch¹

2020

Hist. Afr.

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“…Fortuitous finds among the library holdings of the Hispanic Society of America, a venerable New York institution better known for its paintings by Spanish masters El Greco, Goya, Murillo, Sorolla, and Zurbarán, have taken two colleagues and me on a research trail that seeks to trace how so much Latin American patrimony has ended up in foreign repositories, for the most part in Europe and the United States (Kramer, Lovell, and Lutz 2013). The protagonist of The Manuscript Hunter, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, is someone whose forays bear directly on our inquiries, his life and times, acquisitions, and adventures brought wonderfully alive in this captivating, page-turner of a book.…”

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The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859

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2018

The AAG Review of Books

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The Science of Useful Nature in Central America

Brockmann¹

2020

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Rica, it had great natural advantages, from being a place where 'the most exquisite fruits of all climes grow in abundance' to possessing harbours on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Indeed, it might well be 'the best of all the King's possessions'. 1 Yet, as a contributor to Guatemala's newspaper remarked in 1803, 'this kingdom, which should be one of the most prosperous, is one of the most miserable ones in America'. How to square these contradictions, and help fulfil the true potential of the region, was the mission of a group of reformers who came together in patriotic associations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They believed that geographical, climatic, botanical, agricultural, and demographic knowledge held the key to 'enlightened' progress. True patriots would not just be content with gathering such knowledge. Instead, theirs was a practical Enlightenment that would offer prosperity by applying scientific knowledge to the management of landscapes. As this book argues, Central American reformers found the meaning of a homeland not in abstract ideas of idealised national landscapes, but in experiential engagement with them. By the early nineteenth century, reformers imagined a new region, one that was self-confidently connected to the rest of the world through scientific communication networks, and one whose inhabitants were dedicated to developing its bountiful landscapes into ever more prosperous spaces. Although patriotic identities of the eighteenth century map onto nineteenth-century nationalisms imprecisely at best, the legacy of new visions of Central 2

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Pillage in the Archives: The Whereabouts of Guatemalan Documentary Treasures

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Preserving Public Broadcasting Archives in the Digital Era: Circulatory Stories and Technologies, the Digital Turn, and the Return of the Past in West Africa

Preserving Public Broadcasting Archives in the Digital Era: Circulatory Stories and Technologies, the Digital Turn, and the Return of the Past in West Africa

The Manuscript Hunter: Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859

The Science of Useful Nature in Central America

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