Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-188) and index.

Basic Themes: Use, Production and Content -- Diversity in documentation -- Documents: production and function -- Writers and readers--a dynamic relationship -- Documents and their content -- Producing Facts -- From Paris 1748 to Geneva 1998 -- Death: a progress report -- Enumerating neurotics -- Documents in Action I. Documents in Organizational Settings -- An ethnomethodologist in the archive -- A Thai village circa 1968 -- Talk and text in the clinic -- Documents and organizational activity -- The politics of fog -- Conclusion: how to do things with documents -- Documents in Action II. Making things visible -- The tree of knowledge -- Of fungi and fish -- Making disease visible -- Making risk visible -- Conclusions: making work visible -- Texts, Authors, Identities -- Authors. What use are they? -- A dossier manufactures its subject -- Autobiography as a technology of self -- Sybil. A network of text and action -- Identity as performed through writing--and reading -- Content, Meaning and Reference -- Mind, meaning and interpretation -- Meaning and modernism -- Referencing death -- Referencing metaphors -- Accounting for fatigue -- Doing Things with Words -- Traveller's tales -- The scientific report -- From Kiriwana to Inishkillane -- Documents as Evidence. Researching the Inert Text -- Conjectures and refutations -- Evidence, evidence, evidence -- The selection of evidence -- The scope and robustness of data -- Data extraction: indexing and coding -- Conclusions: conjectural history -- Production, Consumption and Exchange.

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