Colonial archive documents function as citational genealogies, not just records

Evidence

Under the subject heading “Government care for the upbringing and education on behalf of the European population of the Netherlands Indies.” (“Staatszorg van opvoeding en onderwijs ten behoeve van den Europeesche bevolking van N.I.”) the verbaal of 28 March 1874 referenced twenty-four other documents, providing at once a genealogy of prior discussions and decisions and a selective citational map. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 93

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated interest in colonial archives and epistemic anxiety — cites archival method literature on citation as a technology of governance.
• DEFINE: Introduces the ‘selective citational map’ concept central to understanding archive epistemics.