Los Archivos Históricos Provinciales y la construcción de la memoria colectiva
| Main Author: | Flores-Varela, Carlos |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | es |
| Terbitan: |
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/31342/1/Comunicacion.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/31342/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Provincial historical archives (AHP for its Spanish acronym) have always been the memory of official power in the peripheries. But in a context in which archives and archivists no longer conceive ourselves as merely passive papers' recipients, but rather as actors in the collective memory's construction, it is necessary to consider whether this classical function can be maintained today. Some relatively recent elements are coming up to question the role and even the very existence of AHPs: the management of electronic documents and the "unique electronic archive"; The opening of the notion of archiving to areas such as art or literature; The experiences of approaching small personal and family archives ... For this purpose, two approaches are proposed. On the one hand, to assume decidedly and without complexes that AHPs are, above all, places of culture. Although the archivist profession currently seems to be involved in "document management", in its more technical and administrative sense, the fact remains that citizens continue to perceive archives as cultural elements. And this does not have to be negative, as demonstrated by the huge public projection of the great "historical" archives. On the other hand, it is necessary to collect documents produced outside the power that are kept away from the archives (from personal funds to records seized from criminal groups) and which form a clearly alternative and complementary memory to the official memory. The AHPs, which already have the memory of power, have the minimum means to guarantee professional treatment of these documents, and at the same time they are not as remote (geographically and psychologically) as the large archives. They are, therefore, the perfect places to preserve this alternative memory.