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Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History
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This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records. Because the historical records of the Virgin Islands reside primarily in Denmark and the United States, Virgin Islanders have had limited access to the primary sources of their history and this has affected both their ability to write their own history and to construct their collective memory. But while a strong oral tradition, often in competition with the written tradition, influences the ways in which this community remembers, it also underlines the dilemma of interpreting the history of the colonized through the records of the colonizer. The story of the Virgin Islands and its search for its memory includes an exploration of how this community, through public commemorations and folk tradition has formed its memory to date, and the role that archives play in this process. Interwoven throughout is a broader analysis of the place of archives and archivists in helping communities find their history. The book is exceptionally well written and will appeal to historians, archivists and those interested in the Carribean.
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In St. Croix, legal protections from government sources are extended mainly to sites with standing sugar mills and other spaces of colonial occupation, and not to sites associated with spirit trees, unmarked graves, oral histories, and other African diasporic heritage, which arguably hold greater importance within the Crucian community.
“While in contrast legal protections from government sources are extended mainly to sites with standing sugar mills and other spaces of colonial occupation in St. Croix, the same equitable protection is not extended to sites associated with extensive archival holdings, standing spirit trees or unmarked graves, or spaces with oral histories associated with independent Black markets, Free Black hom”
From Creating Community and Engaging Community: The Foundations of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (2022) · cites this paper as Bastian 2003
Jeannette Allis Bastian's (2003) classic text Owning Memory highlights the ongoing struggle within the Crucian community where limited access to archival records limited the ability to construct, reinforce, and protect one's own history and collective memory.
“Jeannette Allis Bastian’s (2003) classic text Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History, highlights the ongoing struggle within the Crucian community where limited access to archival records limited the ability to construct, reinforce, and protect one’s own history and collective memory.”
From Creating Community and Engaging Community: The Foundations of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (2022) · cites this paper as Bastian 2003
Bastian (2003:47) discusses how archival collections that are siphoned off and controlled by colonial powers, who position themselves as the 'keepers of primary knowledge,' uphold an imperialist agenda.
“Bastian (2003:47) discusses how archival collections that are siphoned off and controlled by colonial powers, who position themselves as the “keepers of primary knowledge,” uphold an imperialist agenda.”
From Creating Community and Engaging Community: The Foundations of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands (2022) · cites this paper as Bastian 2003:47
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Flewellen, A. O., Odewale, A., Dunnavant, J., Jones, A., & White, W. (2022) · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · doi:10.1007/s10761-021-00600-z · Cited by 43
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