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- noun The keeping of
archives .
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Examples
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Simpson's particular strategy is archivalism, the disinterested collection of historical detail, which includes a critical appraisal of the limits of such disinterestedness (or objectivity).
Abstracts 2002
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Putting it this way, it seems to me, might forestall invidious appeals to sheer archivalism, or to a relevance-averse kind of antiquarianism that, in my experience, very few students of considerable ambition and intelligent conviction will now be likely to take up.
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Cameras are everywhere, recording every obscure corner in the name of security and archivalism and just plain prurience.
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If archivalism is an ideology that tells us what should count as genuine knowledge, "specialization" is a way of organizing work that enables us to reproduce and extend the knowledge we happen to value.
Archivalia 2010
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Cameras are everywhere, recording every obscure corner in the name of security and archivalism and just plain prurience.
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Cameras are everywhere, recording every obscure corner in the name of security and archivalism and just plain prurience.
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In effect, archivalism tells us that before we can know one thing, we must first know something more basic.
Archivalia 2010
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In subtle but far-reaching ways, archivalism shapes the ways we teach.
Archivalia 2010
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From the standpoint of archivalism, we cannot be said to understand a text until we can restate it in our own words -- until we can prove, in other words, a "mastery" or
Archivalia 2010
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For those persuaded by archivalism, the past can take on a quasi-sacred character: figures from antiquity may loom large, while contemporary people look like pygmies by comparison.
Archivalia 2010
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