From Parchment to Podcast: The Collaborative Process of Building and Unlocking an Archive
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Kristen T. Oertel
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Renee Harvey
Abstract
This project began with a deceptively simple question: “Were there runaway slaves in Indian Territory in the 1830 s and 40s?” The answer was complicated and relied upon the combined expertise of historians, archivists, curators, and collectors. This article describes how collaborative research, performed at the Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, uncovered a long-neglected piece of history in Indian Territory. The collections, which contain diverse sources such as manuscripts written on parchment, archaeological artefacts, original art, and more recently, digitised documents, images, and videos, shape the way scholars answer their questions. Although scholarly research may appear to be an independent endeavour – the professor mining sources at a desk or writing alone on a computer – the reality, especially in the twenty-first century, is much different. What shows up on the page and, now, what results in a podcast, is rooted in a shared journey, beginning with an archivist or curator collecting and cataloguing materials and ending in cyberspace.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
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- Archive Fever and British Romanticism: Blake, Byron, and Keats
- Between Aura and Access: Artefactuality, Institutionality, and the Allure of the Archival
- The Document as Epistemic Object: Notes on Archival Knowledge Cultures
- Of Gaps and Gossip: Intimacy in the Archive
- Words, Wares, Names: Dave the Potter as American Archive
- From Parchment to Podcast: The Collaborative Process of Building and Unlocking an Archive
- “The People Shall Continue”: Native American Museums as Archives of Futurity
- Speculative Bibliography
- Reviews
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- Francis Leneghan. 2020. The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon Studies 39. Cambridge: Brewer, xxi + 300 pp., 1 illustr., £ 60.00.
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- T. R. Johnson (ed.). 2019. New Orleans: A Literary History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 379 pp., £ 35.00.
- Christian B. Long. 2017. The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000. Bristol/Chicago, IL: Intellect, 300 pp., £ 70.00.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- What’s in an Archive? Cursory Observations and Serendipitous Reflections
- Archive Fever and British Romanticism: Blake, Byron, and Keats
- Between Aura and Access: Artefactuality, Institutionality, and the Allure of the Archival
- The Document as Epistemic Object: Notes on Archival Knowledge Cultures
- Of Gaps and Gossip: Intimacy in the Archive
- Words, Wares, Names: Dave the Potter as American Archive
- From Parchment to Podcast: The Collaborative Process of Building and Unlocking an Archive
- “The People Shall Continue”: Native American Museums as Archives of Futurity
- Speculative Bibliography
- Reviews
- Thijs Porck. 2019. Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History. Anglo-Saxon Studies 33. Woodbridge: Boydell, x + 278 pp., £ 60.00/$ 99.00.
- Francis Leneghan. 2020. The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon Studies 39. Cambridge: Brewer, xxi + 300 pp., 1 illustr., £ 60.00.
- Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott (eds.). 2019. The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 51. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, xix + 281 pp., $ 109.99.
- Mary Clayton and Juliet Mullins (eds. and trans.). 2019. Ælfric: Old English Lives of Saints. Volumes I-III. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 58–60. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, vol. I: xxxii + 384 pp.; vol. II: vi + 426 pp.; vol. III: vi + 402 pp., each volume $ 35.00/£ 28.95/€ 31.00.
- Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz and Sabine Sielke (eds.). 2016. Knowledge Landscapes North America. Heidelberg: Winter, 305 pp., € 58.00.
- T. R. Johnson (ed.). 2019. New Orleans: A Literary History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 379 pp., £ 35.00.
- Christian B. Long. 2017. The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema 1960–2000. Bristol/Chicago, IL: Intellect, 300 pp., £ 70.00.
