Excluding archival silences : oral history and historical...

Notes: Sumario: Despite our society's increasing reliance on electronic documentation, to-date archives remain, largely, material repositories of cultural memory. It is an accepted historical problematic, however, that culture is often resistant to material preservation. There exists an undeniable and profund tension between scholary efforts to reconstruct history and interpret cultural traditions and the fragmentary, and often limited, material record. That is to say, scholarship is shaped by a sinuous negotiation around the historical silences that encompass all of material culture. Historical silences, however, can at times be marginalized (or at best excluded) by a sensitive configuration of material evidence with oral history. "Excluding archival silences: oral history and historical absence" uses a historically and geographically specific example of oral history to engage in a more generalist discussion of how oral reflection, especially when shaped by material evidences, can be an especielly effective tool for preserving the dynamics of culture that often remain undocumented.
Sumario: A pesar de la revolución electrónica, los archivos siguen siendo los silos de la cultura y los pósitos de la memoria. Existe un fuerte dilema y tensiones entre los escolásticos de la historia escrita y los legatarios de las tradiciones culturales transmitidos. Habla el artículo de los silencios históricos, un hueco que sólo puede rellanarse mediante aquellas fuentes horales, es decir, transmitidas por el boca a boca y el vis a vis de las generaciones que se renuevan. De ahí la gran importancia que va a tener en la era multimedia todo lo que se conserva mediante el oído o la imagen.