s Hariz Halilovich notes, early archival the-ory, drawing from ‘positivist traditions’, invoked and encoded ideas of ‘objectivity, neutrality,impartiality and personal detachment – that is, everything that is the opposite of subjective,emotional and affective’.2

the archival endeavor is inher-ently and ‘intimately bound up with these life events’2;

Archivaria The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists“It Feels Like a Life’s Work”

ira Tansey justlyasserts that “no one owes their trauma to archivists.”

We cannot romanticise these things; the kitchen cannot be an acritical panacea. And it is not enough to not romanticise,we need to be actively antiromantic. The antiromantic allows for the contradictory, for the strange, for memories and tastesnot only of beauty, but of loss and devastation.

Similarly, a residentof Canada may experience a Californian winter as pleasant, while a long-term resident of the region complains of thecold (Neimanis & Walker, 2014)

While the Damarapastoralist may be attuned to the difference between hôananub and gurukupu nanub rains—the former concurrent withthe death of an important person in the community, and the latter associated with migration of livestock—hisEuropean anthropologist companion may view them both as “cloudbursts”