By administrative design, these gathered documents constituted the evidentiary packages for decisions to be made. Such accumulations of conflicting assessments, extraneous detail, anecdote, and local know-how are flash points of something else: of epistemic habits called into ques- tion, of certain knowledge in the face of uncertain conditions, of bold and equivocal interpretations of the everyday.

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ E…, loc. 87