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Title: | Sorting and seeing: Digitization and ways of reading the archives of French West Africa* |
Authors: | Rurrill, Emily |
Keywords: | French empire Guns Masculinity Digital photography Archives Military Africa |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Series/Report no.: | Journay of World History;Vol.32, No.02 .- P.199-217 |
Abstract: | This essay provides a brief overview of themes that emerge in historical research when we consider the low-technology and simple methods of digital photography in archives of empire. A brief consideration of how to incorporate aspects of digital capture in the classroom is also discussed. The core of the article is a case study of gun permit applications and the circulation of guns between France and French West Africa in the 1950s. The increased capacity to amass material through digital technologies-namely, digital photography in archives-pushes historians to develop sorting methods that open up new analytical terrain in histories of the French empire. Deconstructing the deceptively straight-forward and formulaic gun permit as the primary text in question, the essay explores the following question: what is the relationship between close reading and aggregate methods, and how do we use them together to see different angles on historical process? |
URI: | https://dspace.ctu.edu.vn/jspui/handle/123456789/71059 |
ISSN: | 1045-6007 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal of World history |
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