Owning Memory: How a Caribbean Community Lost Its Archives and Found Its History

by Jeannette Allis Bastian and Jeannette A. Bastian

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031332008X
• ISBN13: 9780313320088
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.5"