期刊名称：Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
电子版ISSN：2572-9861
出版年度：2018
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：170-185
DOI：10.1080/25729861.2018.1514713
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：Examining research conducted by the author in 2006, 2007 and 2017 at Yale University’s Manuscripts and Archives, and focused particularly on letters as interlocutors and informants, this article demonstrates the ways in which archival research is ethnographic and labyrinthine. Situated in science and technology studies, and drawing on the work of Karen Barad and Tim Ingold, archival research is posited less as discoverable clues and lost traces than as threads of inquiry bursting with possibility, uncertainty and potential for sense making. In the process of working in the archival labyrinth, the researcher, the works and the archive are transformed.
