The Story of a French Life-Writing Archive: "Association pour l'Autobiographie et le Patrimoine Autobiographique"
In 1992 and in a small town, Ambérieu-en-Bugey (France), some friends and I founded a new sort of life-writing archive, accepting from unknown persons any autobiographical items (narratives, diaries, letters), reading and indexing them, and opening them to any interested reader or researcher (among...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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FQS
2011-09-01
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| Series: | Forum: Qualitative Social Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1739 |
| Summary: | In 1992 and in a small town, Ambérieu-en-Bugey (France), some friends and I founded a new sort of life-writing archive, accepting from unknown persons any autobiographical items (narratives, diaries, letters), reading and indexing them, and opening them to any interested reader or researcher (among them sociologists, but mainly historians). This data are described both in a biennial printed catalog, the Garde-mémoire, and on the Association pour l'Autobiographie (APA) website. Nearly 3000 texts have been so far collected, read and offered to any form of social science study.
URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110371 |
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| ISSN: | 1438-5627 |