Meanings
- uncountableThe art or practice of maintaining an archive.
By a nice irony of archivism the estate papers of the family were deposited at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, and they provide the basis for this article.
2003, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volumes 75-77, page 1891 more example
We present fan archivism – or, as we describe it, activist archivism – as a form of fan production. In his recent book on fandom, Mark Duffett (2013, 21) describes fans as “networkers, collectors, tourists, archivists, curators […]
2015, Sarah Baker, Preserving Popular Music Heritage: Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together
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