Ethnography Archives and Politics of History
Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, MusselburghThe workshop consists of a lecture/seminar and practical research activities where attendees will learn about anthropological approaches to questions of time, history, and their material culture, including archival documents, images, monuments, and commemorative art. Through a series of comparative empirical examples, the workshop will discuss experiences of time as knots rather than lines and explore challenges of interpreting history on the basis of partial records and silenced stories such as stories of slavery and political dissent.