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Pekka Henttonen: Records, rules and speech acts

Pekka Henttonen: Records, rules and speech acts Arch Sci (2008) 8:149–156 DOI 10.1007/s10502-009-9080-7 BOOK REVIEW Tampere University Press, Tampere, 2007, ISBN 978-951-44-7025-7, € 26 Brien Brothman Published online: 4 August 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Can it be that archivists have been asking the wrong question? Perhaps answers to the question ‘‘what is a record’’ can only take them so far, providing sufficient comfort to enable them to get on with their work, but also leaving a residue of feeling that their best answers are never quite good enough to quiet thought about it. Might it be preferable instead for archivists to ask: What do records do? More precisely, beyond conveying meaning, do written forms of expression not actually do things? How, in other words, do words and utterances given and kept in the form of records come to trigger consequences— sometimes happy, sometimes horrific—in the real world? Intentionally or unintentionally, Records, Rules and Speech Acts (hereafter, RRSA) raises these fundamental theoretical questions. The author, a former archivist at the Military Archives of Finland, and currently assistant professor (electronic records management) in the Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media of the University of Tampere, wrote the book as a thesis for his doctorate in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archival Science Springer Journals

Pekka Henttonen: Records, rules and speech acts

Brothman, Brien
Archival Science , Volume 8 (2) – Aug 4, 2009
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2009 by Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
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Cultural and Media Studies; Library Science; Organization; Information Storage and Retrieval; Anthropology; Cultural Heritage; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
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1389-0166
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1573-7519
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10.1007/s10502-009-9080-7
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Arch Sci (2008) 8:149–156 DOI 10.1007/s10502-009-9080-7 BOOK REVIEW Tampere University Press, Tampere, 2007, ISBN 978-951-44-7025-7, € 26 Brien Brothman Published online: 4 August 2009 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 Can it be that archivists have been asking the wrong question? Perhaps answers to the question ‘‘what is a record’’ can only take them so far, providing sufficient comfort to enable them to get on with their work, but also leaving a residue of feeling that their best answers are never quite good enough to quiet thought about it. Might it be preferable instead for archivists to ask: What do records do? More precisely, beyond conveying meaning, do written forms of expression not actually do things? How, in other words, do words and utterances given and kept in the form of records come to trigger consequences— sometimes happy, sometimes horrific—in the real world? Intentionally or unintentionally, Records, Rules and Speech Acts (hereafter, RRSA) raises these fundamental theoretical questions. The author, a former archivist at the Military Archives of Finland, and currently assistant professor (electronic records management) in the Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media of the University of Tampere, wrote the book as a thesis for his doctorate in

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