Download or read book Elusive Archives written by Martin Brückner and published by Material Culture Perspectives. This book was released on 2021-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elusive Archives asks how historians, librarians, and museum professionals can bring together scattered, lost, or otherwise forgotten objects into a provisional collection, an elusive archive. Addressing a wide range of objects, the authors' diverse approaches, varying formats, and broad scope of inquiries describe a new conceptual territory at the intersection of archival studies and material culture studies.