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<klgreen4@hotmail.com> In response to Jennifer Kopf's posting on this subject, she is correct in all that she says. However... She states: As much as I wish it were not the case, archival research can be done better in Berlin. Time in Tanzania can be used more profitably by interviewing, traveling, perhaps to smaller district archives which are not duplicated elsewhere. This is an issue I hope to address (contingent on funding) in a paper at the (U.S.) African Studies Association in November. Archives of a country are not held for the benefit of northern researchers. They are part of the heritage of that country. As such, that country has a right to those archives so that its citizens, much as American citizens visit the Smithsonian or National Archives, can access, argue over, study and discuss the documentary and material culture heritage of their past. That is as essential to the concept of civil society as any of the other components of that nebulous concept that are commonly discussed by NGOs, the UN and government commissions in the north and the south.
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