Originally published in Russia in 1906. Translated from Russian with Introduction and annotation by Sergei Kan. Rasmussen Series in Historical Translation I just found a copy of a review of this annotated trasnlation, which was one of my very first publications by none other than Claude Lévi-Strauss. Little did I know at that time (1985) that in 2000 I will be co-organizing with my friends and colleagues, Marie Mauzé and Michael Harkin, a conference in Paris on Northwest Coast ethnology in his honor (which became the basis of our co-edited volume "Coming to Shore: Northwest Ethnology, Traditions and Visions"; 2004; University of Nebraska Press). I am attaching this review here.

The three projects that are showcased in this issue—Digitizing Chinese Englishmen, the Re/Collecting Project, and 3-11—are part of a growing attempt to address these gaps by digitally recovering, collecting, and archiving the histories and presents of Asian and Asian American communities. The notion of recovery is of primary importance to both my own Digitizing Chinese Englishmen and Grace Yeh’s Re/Collecting Project. Digitizing Chinese Englishmen is a digital archival project that focuses on the digitization and dissemination of an Anglophone magazine, the Straits Chinese Magazine, produced by Malayan Chinese writers in the late nineteenth century. The hybrid identities of many of the publication’s authors—negotiating being pulled between the Chinese and British empires, while on Malayan colonial soil—provide a complex yet clear picture of the construction of later postcolonial Anglophone identity. In conceiving of the structure of the project, I also consider what makes up a “postcolonial” digital archive. Grace Yeh’s Re/Collecting Project, conversely, brings the importance of recovery to the mid- and late twentieth century, focusing on the narratives of voiceless Filipino workers in San Luis Obispo, on California’s Central Coast. Yeh’s project focused on turning objects that were not considered “collectible” by traditional archives into valuable historical memory— finding items in individuals’ garages, attics, and closets about a people’s forgotten agricultural labor and the impact of this labor. Though the project was originally conceived as a physical exhibition titled Routes and Roots, Yeh, realizing the importance of continued public access to these community stories and materials, launched the Re/Collecting Project to continue the project in virtual form. Re/Collecting is conceived of as an “ethnic studies memory project of California’s Central Coast.” Eric Dinmore’s digital archive of 3-11 brings us into the twenty-first century with documentation of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the associated tsunami and nuclear catastrophes of March 11, 2011. Dinmore notes that the type of collecting he encountered in creating a digital archive from 3-11 diverged greatly from the physical archives that he, as a historian, had been more used to encountering. While the historian’s usual archive generally means an often difficult-to-access, proprietary archive, the 3-11 archive was conceived of as “an open forum for the global online community to analyze, remember, and reflect on Japan’s envirotechnical tragedy.” This open forum included massive amounts of digital data, including social media posts from Twitter and Facebook, blog entries, discussion group postings, nongovernmental organization communications, and government websites. The sheer volume and rapid production of this material, Dinmore argues, demand that the twenty-first-century digital historian deeply reconsider the methodologies and impact of the archival process.

A view of Fields' book.

This article reexamines the role and influence of University of Michigan alumni (“Michigan Men”) in the Insular Government of the American-occupied Philippines during the Progressive Era. It contends that, due to the lack of an undisputed unifying figure around which to rally — such as future President William Howard Taft for the alumni of Yale, and Governor-General W. Cameron Forbes for graduates of Harvard — their contribution to the governance of the Philippine Archipelago at this time remains undeservedly overshadowed by that of their Ivy League contemporaries. The piece also explores tensions among leading members of the University of Michigan Alumni Association of the Philippine Islands over the constitutional future of the archipelago, and examines shifts in the thought of this sample regarding the capacity of Filipinos for clean, efficient, and representative (“Anglo-Saxon style”) self-government.

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“Ivan Bunin. Cursed Days: A Diary of Revolution. Translated, introduced and annotated by Thomas Gaiton Marullo.” Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, summer (2000): 301-02.