De pasados presentes: hacia una etnografía de archivos

Abstract

This article seeks to provide a theoretical and methodological approach on how to use different types of sources from different historical periods in researches focused on examining the processes of reconstruction of memory and the past, especially but not exclusively, in the context of conflicts and territorial claims by subordinate sectors. We refer to the importance of analyzing in a crossed and a situational way, how different types of files, that are of a past still present, are critically and creatively redefined and re read in ethnographic contexts. This proposal involves organizing knowledge practices, introduce the discussion of historical archives and pointing out the potential that brings observation, reinscription and analysis under an approach and an ethnographic context.