- Anhropology and archives in general focus on "relations, responsibilities, voices, bodies, legacies, and publics." (67)
- Archive-imagining
- Archives are always becoming and in process
- Intimidation: "The classical concept of the ethnographic archive is intimidating for most researchers. A singular repository, sealed off, pro- tected, finitely categorized: a prison of sorts (Derrida 1995)."
- Acquisition and ownerrship: "The acquisitory nature of ethnographic inquiry is its own type of ghost, haunting collected material brought back from the field and pulling it toward both coherence and chaos."
- Unruly Feelings: "What anthropologist Jean Jackson describes as the “unruly feelings about fieldnotes” that anthropologists have (1990, 9) also applies to feelings about fieldwork collections more generally, whether they are archived or not."
- Liminal zones: "Archives, or aspirations toward them, lie in a liminal zone between memory and forgetting (Zeitlyn 2012, 485)."
- Power: "[Fieldnotes can be] "artificial and uncomfortable form of power."
- Baseline questions: "What type of archive was called for, who had interest and stakes in seeing it become a “thing,” and who had the energy and resources to create it."
- Archive as form of giving back and honoring: "At every step, I have been thinking about the ethical dimensions of consent, respect, ownership, stewardship, legacy, and propriety."
- Creating something new (against liminality, forgetting ownership) -- ethnographer becomes the force to: "create something new from the digitized Bemba materials, to reshape the liminal zone between memory and forgetting, to upend the ideas of ownership, fixity, and control, and to push it toward the creation of new meanings" ... or: "the artistic unruliness of intervention."
- Archive as "extension and an exchange", creating "new relations" (77) --> old recordings answering new questions
- DEUTERO: Letter writing to "not just to infiltrate the archive, but to highlight the deep rela- tionality and precarity of archive-making and imagining in a recursive and personal way."
- Affect matters: the archive is linked to the genre of "advice" shows and lettes
- Installation needed to be multi-sensorial, open, remixable
- Goal: making the archive "more accessible, engaging, celebrated, and theorized.
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