Archive, Slow Ideology and Egodocuments as Microhistorical Autobiography: Potential History

ISBN-13: 9781032010793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 160 str.

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon

Opis

This book aims to demonstrate how scholars have been utilizing egodocuments and providing an opening for the multivocality of the sources to be fully appreciated. The book is based upon a photographic collection of vagabonds and outsiders that belonged to the author’s grandfather.

Spis treści

Episode 1  1. The Book – The "Slow" Process of Historical Analysis  2. Family Matters – Memory and the Importance of Egodocuments  Episode 2  3. Soft Spots – A Non-Autobiography  4. Potential History

O autorze

Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon is Professor of Cultural History and chair of the Department of History at the University of Iceland. He is also chair of the Center for Microhistorical Research.