Title: Postmodernism - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Headings: Postmodernism
Postmodernism
Postmodernism: Philosophical Aspects
Postmodernism in Sociology
Postmodernism in Geography
Postmodernism: Methodology
2.4 Relativism and Questioning Postmodernists
Photographic image issues
Postmodernism defined
Archaeology
Conclusion
Art History
5 Methodological Pluralism
Organizations
Museum
Family Systems
Narrative family therapy
Warfare and Military Studies, Overview
The Postmodern Military

Content: Instead, it emphasizes the diversity of human experience and multiplicity of perspectives. In many ways, a postmodernist perspective is well suited to the utilization of photographic records, because it questions traditional notions of truth and the concept that records can have only one possible meaning. Academic disciplines have contended with the challenges of postmodernism since the 1970s. Information professionals as well have questioned their own traditional stances of neutrality. The increase in archives and special collection repositories, graduate education programs, the impact of technology, and the greater emphasis on nontextual materials have given impetus to a re-evaluation of traditional principles and practices. Some postmodern ideas have gained ground within the information professions, specifically with regard to archival selection and appraisal, as archivists recognize the subjectivity of deciding which records to preserve and which to destroy. However, postmodernism has made significantly less headway in the area of arrangement and description of records—particularly analog and digital images—where many orthodoxies still reign. Questioning the objectivity of these practices as well as understanding the influential role of information professionals is a step towards shaping a representative pictorial record of history. View chapter Purchase book
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Archaeology
Patricia A. Urban, E. Christian Wells, in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2005
Conclusion
Postmodernism in general has taught us that knowledge is contingent;