ABSTRACT

This article discusses how historians have reconceived account books from a source that describes economic and social actions to a social technology that constructs them. It examines the interpretive changes that this turn entailed and illustrates its application to three types of historical relationships: time, slavery, and the family. It aims to de-mystify account books as sources requiring unilateral, expert interpretation to one that is open to a variety of interpretive possibilities.

中文翻译：

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作为社交技术的账本

摘要

本文讨论历史学家如何重新构思账簿，从描述经济和社会行为的来源到构建它们的社会技术。它考察了这一转变所带来的解释性变化，并说明了其在三种类型的历史关系中的应用：时间、奴隶制和家庭。它的目的是揭开账簿的神秘面纱，将其作为需要单方面专家解释的来源，转变为对多种解释可能性开放的来源。