Official, private and social archive about the North-Patagonia.

Politic and memory, empty and objectives shelter from of documents.

Abstract

This article recovers a collective strategy to reconstruct the history of the North-Patagonia archives. To begin with, we differentiate the existence of old state archives and archives still in the process of creation; non-state and private archives and finally, archives of social organizations. Then, we highlight missions and objectives; accessibility and functions of archives in a comparative way. We intend to analyze them from a historical perspective. We intend to understand the political reasons and the struggles for the construction of narratives through which the archives become spaces of disputes and social tensions. On the other hand, we recover the historicity to confront ahistorical versions that place the archives as merely bureaucratic and non-political sites. For this analysis we selected some files that have been commonly consulted for the writing of stories about North-Patagonia.