Memories of archive and archive of memories: ethnographic inquiries into memories, documents and bureaucracies in Córdoba, Argentina
The following article is part of the field work carried out for my doctoral thesis in the Doctorate of Anthropological Sciences, in the course of 2017 and 2018, with morgue files located in the Provincial Archive of the Memory of Córdoba corresponding to the period from January 1st to January 31st,...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/etcetera/article/view/26927 |
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| Sumario: | The following article is part of the field work carried out for my doctoral thesis in the Doctorate of Anthropological Sciences, in the course of 2017 and 2018, with morgue files located in the Provincial Archive of the Memory of Córdoba corresponding to the period from January 1st to January 31st, 1975 and from March 1st to March 31st, 1976. After carrying out an ethnographic approach to the documents, I ask myself about the different elements -words, marks, euphemisms- around the bodies and corpses enunciated in the texts. As a result of this field work, in this article I specifically ask myself about the possibility of considering the same ethnographic work on files produced in the 70s as an act of (re)construction of ‘memories’. If we could state that the forms of writing on the bodies constitute "traces" of these materialities, then, what kind of "traces" do the documents refer to in the present? On the other hand, I focus reflexively on thinking of the archives themselves as three dimensions that make and configure disputed memories: The Provincial Archive of Memory as a site for memory; the practice of archiving as work destined to the production of ‘memories’ and the morgue files as archives that also make the configuration of states logics of the recent past. |
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