Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process

All are fi rst-person narratives that recount parts of an author's archival research, from exploring a subject to honing focus, and from recalling early insecurity about one's training or even one's abilities to gaining confi dence about method and object, often the result of casting...

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Published in:Biography (Honolulu) 2009, Vol.32 (4), p.867-870
Main Author: Ferreira-Buckley, Linda
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives
Archives & records
Biographies
Essays
Historians
Narratives
Powell, Victor
R&D
Research & development
Research methods
Research workers
Review articles
REVIEWS
Scholars
Studies
Truth
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Summary:All are fi rst-person narratives that recount parts of an author's archival research, from exploring a subject to honing focus, and from recalling early insecurity about one's training or even one's abilities to gaining confi dence about method and object, often the result of casting off objectivist standards of truth in favor of modes of interpretation that embrace a range of aptitudes. [...] the narratives bring to life what Schultz describes as work "as a lived process" (ix).
ISSN:0162-4962
1529-1456
1529-1456
DOI:10.1353/bio.0.0145