Abstract

TREBISACCE, Catalina. Contribution from anthropological reflexivity to an epistemology of the (co)construction of historical testimonies: Stories of Argentine feminism during the seventies. Cuad. antropol. soc. [online]. 2017, n.46, pp.7-27. ISSN 1850-275X.

This article is an exercise in anthropological reflexivity based on the methodological analysis of field recording techniques that took place within the development of my doctoral research, related to the study and production of new memories of the feminist movement in Buenos Aires during the seventies. This reflexive work unveils its meaning by looking into how it was produced and the theoretical space -traversed by the historiographical account- in which it took place. This research thoroughly looks into the mode of production of in-depth interviews and, within it, at the role played by researcher expectations and the strategies of each interviewed woman when producing a narrative about herself. For this purpose, epistemic tools developed by feminist theory, anthropology, and memory studies are taken into account. These tools enable the analysis of the dynamic and relational character of testimony production

Keywords : Testimonies; Reflexivity; Feminism; History; Anthropology.