АРХИВСКИ ИЗВОРИ У РЕКОНСТРУКЦИЈИ ЖИВОТА
Archives Sources: a Tool Meant for Time Reconstruction

Author(s): Dragana Radojičić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Archiving
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: sources; archive; records; cultural continuity; significance of archivalia
Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that archives and archives files should play a significant role in anthropological/ethnological studies. Anthropology/ethnology, as a science, should insist on scrutinized and continuous methods of transcribing cultural phenomena filed in archive news and documents, in order to enlarge our understanding about humans. A variety of ethnological subjects, ranging from ethno-genesis to mental and character features, are kept in so-called littoral archives. A collection and research of archives files is not an attractive job: this kind of work has to be systematic while quantity and continuity are expected. In order to get results, a team of trained professionals is required that will posses not only knowledge but also patience, to process all the information. The analysis of a specific cultural phenomenon from our past could provide us with valuable data, and also influence us to re-define certain created attitudes in anthropology/ ethnology – therefore, it is impossible to pass over archives records. Hence, in spite of the popular usage of media products and Internet in studies and research, an archivalia has a special and important position in anthropology/ethnology.

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