La vida social de las cosas y los artefactos-documentos del Museo de Carmen de Patagones

Abstract

With this paper we start a new section at Corpus – Archivos virtuales de la alteridad americana, called “Espacio Archivos y Museos” [Space Archives and Museums]. It also presents the institution with which the section is opened, i.e. the Regional History Museum “Emma Nozzi” (MHREN) at Carmen de Patagones, province of Buenos Aires. It describes the characteristics of the museum and justifies the choice to start this channel of communication and sharing among archives, libraries and museums. Finally, it introduces the reader with the richness of MHREN collections through the comment on two of their artifacts-documents: chief Foyel’s toki or staff of command and the agreement he signed with Major Liborio Bernal on behalf of Argentina’s government in 1873.

Keywords

• archive
• museum
• document
• history