Note: this is an evolving Bibliography. If there are items you think we should add, please feel free to contact us. If you need access to the readings, please email us at: Reconnect-Recollect@umich.edu.
Reparative Work: Published works (books, chapters, articles on theory)
Bastian, J.A. “Reading Colonial Records Through an Archival Lens: The Provenance of Place, Space and Creation.” Archival Science, Vol. 6 (2006): 267–284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-006-9019-1.
Berry, D. “The House Archives Built.” up//root. June 22, 2021. https://www.uproot.space/features/the-house-archives-built.
Caswell, M. “Toward a survivor-centered approach to records documenting human rights abuse: lessons from community archives.” Archival Science, Vol. 14 (2014): 307–322. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-014-9220-6.
Colwell, Chip. “Curating Secrets: Repatriation, Knowledge Flows, and Museum Power Structures.” Current Anthropology, Vol. 56, Supplement 12 (December 2015): S263-S275. https://doi.org/10.1086/683429.
Duff, W.M., Harris, V. “Stories and names: Archival description as narrating records and constructing meanings.” Archival Science, Vol. 2 (2002): 263–285. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435625.
Hicks, D. “Necography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum.” British Art Studies, Issue 19, https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-19/conversation.
Hurley, C. “Parallel provenance.” Archives & Manuscripts, Vol. 33, no. 1 (2005): 110-145. https://publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa/article/view/9765.
Hughes-Watkins, L. “Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, Vol. 5 (2018). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol5/iss1/6/
Light, M. and Hyry, T. “Colophons and Annotations: New Directions for the Finding Aid.” American Archivist, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2002): 216-230. https://meridian.allenpress.com/american-archivist/article/65/2/216/23890/Colophons-and-Annotations-New-Directions-for-the.
Louisiana Digital Library. “Re-description as Restorative Justice.” Youtube, commentary by Dr. Tonia Sutherland and SL Ziegler, 19 Nov. 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOs_r6D9lNk.
Nesmith, T. “The concept of societal provenance and records of nineteenth-century Aboriginal–European relations in Western Canada: implications for archival theory and practice.” Archival Science, Vol. 6 (2006): 351–360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-007-9043-9.
Paredes, O. “Preserving ‘Tradition’: The Business of Indigeneity in the Modern Philippine Context.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1 (February 2019): 86-106. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463419000055.
Punzalan, R., et al. “Beyond Clicks, Likes, and Downloads: Identifying Meaningful Impacts for Digitized Ethnographic Archives.” Archivaria, Vol. 84 (Fall 2017): 61-102. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13614.
Tai, J. “Cultural Humility as a Framework for Anti-Oppressive Archival Description.” Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, Vol. 3 (2020). https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/120.
Trouillot, M.R. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.
Turner, H. “Organizing Knowledge in Museums: A Review of Concepts and Concerns.” Knowledge Organization, Vol. 44, No. 7 (September 2017): 472-484. https://leicester.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Organizing_Knowledge_in_Museums_A_Review_of_Concepts_and_Concerns/10243088/1.
Wood, S., Carbone, K., Cifor, M., Gilliland, A., Punzalan, R. et al. “Mobilizing records: re-framing archival description to support human rights.” Archival Science, Vol. 14 (2014): 397–419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-014-9233-1.
Wurl, J. “Ethnicity as Provenance: In Search of Values and Principles for Documenting the Immigrant Experience.” Archival Issues, Vol. 29, no. 1 (2005): 65-76. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41102095.
Decolonizing colonial collections
Azoulay, A. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. Brooklyn: Verso, 2019.
Beredo, C. Import of the Archive: US Colonial Rule of the Philippines and the Making of American Archival History. Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2013.
Das, S. and Lowe, M. “Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections.” Journal of Natural Science Collections, Vol. 6 (2018): 4-14. https://natsca.org/article/2509.
First Archivists Circle. Protocols for Native American Archival Materials (2007). https://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/protocols.html.
la paperson. A Third University is Possible. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2017.
Neale, T. and Kowal E. “‘Related’ Histories: On Epistemic and Reparative Decolonization.” History and Theory, Vol. 59, no. 2 (September 2020): 403-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12168.
Salvador, A. “Afterlives of Dean C. Worcester’s Colonial Photographs: Visualizing Igorot Material Culture, from Archives to Anthropological Fieldwork in Northern Luzon.” Visual Anthropology, Vol. 29, no. 1 (January 2016): 54-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2016.1108832.
See, S.E. The Filipino Primitive and Resistance in the American Museum. New York: New York University, 2017.
Smith, L.T. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books, 2012 [1999].
Stoler, A.L. Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
_____________. “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance.” Archival Science, Vol. 2 (2002): 87-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435632.
Sutherland, T., & Purcell, A. (2021). “A Weapon and a Tool: Decolonizing Description and Embracing Redescription as Liberatory Archival Praxis.” The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), Vol. 5, no. 1 (2021): 60–78. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v5i1.34669
Turner, H. 2020. Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020.
Affect, care, and harm
Agostinho, D. “6 Care,” in Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data, MIT Press, 2020, pp. 75-86.
Agostinho, D. “Archival encounters: rethinking access and care in digital colonial archives.” Archival Science, Vol. 19 (2019): 141–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09312-0.
Caswell, M. and Cifor, M. “From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives.” Archivaria, Vol. 81, no. 1 (2016): 23-43. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13557.
Christen, K., Anderson, J. Toward slow archives. Archival Science, Vol. 19, (2019): 87–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09307-x.
Douglas, J., Alisauskas, A., and Mordell, D. “Treat Them With the Reverence of Archivists’: Records Work, Grief Work, and Relationship Work in the Archives.” Archivaria, Vol. 88 (2019): 84-120. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13699.
Odumosu, T. “The Crying Child: On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons.” Current Anthropology, Vol. 61, suppl. 22 (2020): 289-302. https://doi.org/10.1086/710062.
Wright, K. Archival interventions and the language we use. Archival Science Vol. 19 (2019) 331–348. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09306-y.
Artistic interventions
Bracha, R. “Artists and the Film Archive: Re-Creation—or Archival Replay.” Archival Science, Vol. 13, no. 2–3 (2013): 133–41. doi:10.1007/s10502-012-9181-6.
Carbone, K. “Artists and Records: moving history and memory.” Archives and Records Vol. 38, no. 1-19 (2016): 100-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2016.1260446.
Carbone, K. “Artists in the Archive: An Exploratory Study of the Artist-in-Residence Program at the City of Portland Archives & Records Center.” Archivaria Vol. 79 (2015): 27-52. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13522.
Carbone, K. “Archival Art: Memory Practices, Interventions, and Productions.” Curator: The Museum Journal Vol. 63 (2020): 257-263. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12358.
Jong, F. de. “At work in the archive: introduction to special issue.” World Art Vol. 6, no. 1 (2016): 3-17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21500894.2016.1176391.
Scholarship pertaining to the collections
Balce, N. Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Barndt, K and C. Sinopoli. Object Lessons and the Formation of Knowledge. The University of Michigan Museums, Libraries, and Collections 1817-2017. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Eittreim, E.M. Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2019.
Kirkwood, P.M. “Michigan Men’ in the Philippines and the Limits of Self-Determination in the Progressive Era.” Michigan Historical Review Vol. 40, No. 2 (Fall 2014): 63-86. 10.1353/mhr.2014.0039.
Leary, M.A. “Building A Home for the Laws of the World: Part II: Hoping, Hunting, and Honing,” Law Quad. Notes Vol. 46, no. 4 (2004): 51-61. https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2700&context=articles
Punzalan, R. “Archival Diasporas: A Framework for Understanding the Complexities and Challenges of Dispersed Photographic Collections.” American Archivist, Vol. 77, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 326-349. https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc.77.2.729766v886w16007.
Punzalan, R. “Barriers and Challenges to Virtual Reunification.” Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 51, no. 1 (2014): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.2014.14505101041.
Punzalan, R. Virtual Reunification: Bits and Pieces Gathered Together to Represent the Whole. 2013. University of Michigan, PhD dissertation. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/97878.
Rice, M. Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014.
Sharpe, R. “Prof. Steere’s Expedition to the Philippines.” Nature Vol. 14 (1876): 297-298. https://doi.org/10.1038/014297a0.
Sinopoli, C. “New Research on an Old Collection: Studies of the Philippine Expedition (“Guthe”) Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,” Asian Perspectives, Vol. 52, No. 1, (2013): 1-11.
Legacy Sources
American Philippine Relations Subject Guide, https://bentley.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/American_Philippine_Relations_Subject_Guide.pdf.
Powers, Thomas. “Balita mula Maynila. News from Manila.” Michigan Historical Collections & Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Bulletin No. 19, Special Publication No. 1 (February 1971). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027566838
Visualizing the Empire, https://webapps.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Worcester%202012/index.html
Websites
Michigan in the World, https://philippines.michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/s/exhibit/page/home