العنوان | Living documents, dying archives:towards a historical anthropology of medieval arabic archives |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Authors | El-Leithy, T |
Journal | Al-Qanṭara |
Volume | XXXII-2 |
2011 | |
Issue | julio-diciembre 2011 |
Pagination | 389-434 |
ISSN | 0211-3589 |
Arabic documents, Archives, Dhimmis, Mamlûk Egypt-Syria | |
Based on an analysis of several collections of Medieval Arabic documents, this paper argues for the study of "archiving practises", which selectively use documents as parts of wider social strategies of group formation and reproduction. This method also allows us to uncover the temporality (life-cycle) of documents and archives, including thier dispersal, cycles of obsolescence and recycling; tactics of erasure, and deliberate destruction. | |
Refereed Designation | Refereed |