Cambios y Permanencias (Dec 2012)
Historia y archivística: memorias del poder
Abstract
It seems that Archivistic advances more slowly than history in the process of breaking with its dependence to positivism and functionalism, which tend to bind archives to power and to conceive documents as a source of truth. History transforms itself at a quicker pace thanks to its attempts to approach the Social Sciences, new gazes upon its role with respect to social sectors marginalized from power, and the new definition of document as lie, which transforms its methodology. These reflections follow the disciplinary development of History and Archivistic and revises the concepts of archive and document, observing the way in which these disciplines-bound from their birth to the State-have varied their concepts and methodologies and have achieved independence, or not, from the exercise of power and institutions. Historiographical revision and revision of conceptual references pretends specify that approach further, finally discovering that Archivistics requires finding definitions that allow it to its autonomy more concrete
