A destribuição e sobrevivência dos documentos de arquivo e seus impactos na escrita da História
| Main Authors: | shirley, Carvalhedo Franco, Gerogete, Medleg Rodrigues |
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| Format: | Preprint PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2019
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/38718/1/ISKOFINALJUNHO2019.doc http://eprints.rclis.org/38718/ |
Daftar Isi:
- History and Archival Science reveal innumerable cases of attempted to eliminating the past. Either by intentional and voluntary destruction of documents with probative value, constituting a serious crime against the documentary patrimony of the nations, or by force of legislation edited by governments with the purpose of preventing or postponing the access to archives classified as secret, establishing indefinite schedule for access to these types of documents. Another way of restricting access to archives on topics considered "sensitive" is the concealment of documents that could serve as evidence of crimes committed during a certain historical period. The literature on the destruction of archival documents reveals problems of various natures denouncing a pattern of attempt to erase the writing of History in order to hide illegal, unconstitutional and criminal actions. Being a primary source, evidence of acts, archival documents are always brought to the historical stage by their materiality, their existence having the power to prove the fact occurred. This article seeks to alert archivists about the importance of the analysis of attempts to destroy archival documents, and possible documentary absence, not only as a signifying and / or indicative aspect about the authors and their intentions to "erase" a writing of History, as well as for the importance of encouraging the creation of a line of research regarding to this theme. It exposes some national and international experiences that illuminate the theme through different cases, the impacts caused in history arising from the temporary or permanent "shutdown" of documents received or produced in the activities of the public or private administration. In addition to the research and analysis of scientific and bibliographical productions in Archival Science on the subject of document destruction, documents produced by official bodies, available on the internet, were also analyzed outside this scope. Based on the archival notion of ramification, also as a methodological instrument, it is concluded that hardly all documents derived or related to state actions can "disappear" from the institutions where they were produced and / or circulated and that this notion can help, as a method , in the mapping of archival documents that survived, despite governments' assertions to the contrary, demonstrating the potential of these sources for past tracking.