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A fieldwork manual as a regulatory device: Instructing, prescribing and describing documentation work

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Journal of Information Science

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Abstract

Journal of Information Science, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 615-630, April 2026.
Research on how archaeological fieldwork manuals, a sub-category of methods handbooks, regulate research documentation is limited. Qualitative content analysis of 25 English-language archaeological field manuals from the early 1900s to 2010s showed that ...