Building resilient anthropology collections in a time of disasters

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019, Brazil’s Francisca Keller Library of anthropology was lost in a fire, along with its 37,000 books, manuscripts, films, and other unique field records. While the fire was caused in part by years of public underinvestment in building maintenance, the disaster captured the attention of anthropologists globally: how had we not known about the risks to this collection, and what else could we have done?

In this podcast, we bring together practitioners from anthropology libraries, archives, and museums to discuss how climate change and related socio-environmental disasters are likely to affect our collections, and how we might collaborate in order to better preserve our community and disciplinary heritage

Drawing from our experience on the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR) and at institutions that collect, curate, and preserve our cultural and scholarly heritage, we discuss threats ranging from a loss of power in delicate archival...

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Building resilient anthropology collections in a time of disasters