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More questions than answers: anthropologist’s dilemmas related to the CroMe digital archive

Some scholars in digital humanities claim that the digital has done little to alter the structure of the humanities and that projects designed as digital most often than not simple replace “one form of isolationalism with another, reinscribing and reinforcing a very conservative form of humanities-based scholarship” (Dave Parry). Anthropologists, ethnologists and historians desperately look for a new computationally-based research method or epistemological framework in which productive analysis of words, images, gestures and sounds, as recorded in interviews, will come to the fore. In the line with this observation, a few basic questions related to the structure and the use of the CroMe digital oral history collection come up. The most important one is the visibility and accessibility of the collection in the competitive context of presenting community memories predominantly in digital public sphere (e.g., portals and blogs designed by Croatian veterans, civilian war victims, NGOs, Diaspora and exile communities, political activists). In other words, is this valuable digital collection mostly addressed to scholars and human rights activists?

digital testimonies; CroMe digital archive; oral history in Croatia

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