Between the Local and the Global: Interwining Archives for the Construction of the History of Colonial Northeast Rioplatense

Abstract

This research recovers methodological and heuristic interests that developeda few years ago, which have led us to work on the local and global historical archivesfrom a humanistic horizon. This task puts us in a different place as historians, for itforces us to rethink the social function of the archives and of the historians in thosearchives. In the Northeast region of present-day Argentina, the space for discussionon archives begins to be a terrain won over by historians, who develop projects torecover, digitise and conserve documentary sources. Throughout this article we willfocus on characterising a set of global and local archives that are vital to Rioplatensecolonial history. We are interested in problematizing about documentary dispersionand how we build documentary corpus from sources that lie in different repositories.Beyond exploring them and briefly entering its institutional history, the work is oriented to present an in-depth analysis of the documentary typologies that can be foundin those archives and that are vital to historical research in the region.