Call for Papers Vol. 40 • No. 70 (2025). Anthropology and Archives: Interdisciplinary Research and Experimentation

2024-08-02

BOLETÍN DE ANTROPOLOGÍA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Vol. 40 • No. 70 (2025)
Anthropology and Archives: Interdisciplinary Research and Experimentation
Submission Deadline: August 1, 2024 to January 15, 2025

 

Edited by Aura Lisette Reyes Gavilán (University of Antioquia) and Héctor García Botero (University of Rosario)

From a very old but still relevant division of human sciences, anthropology was defined as the field discipline and history as the archival discipline. A chain of simple oppositions has since structured the relationship between anthropology and archives: orality versus writing, memory versus history, diaries versus sources. For several decades now, this boundary has been less of an obstacle and more of a provocation for critical studies of the archive at the intersection of anthropology with other social sciences, library science, arts, and humanities. Multiple and diverse research and experimentation trajectories have allowed for the dismantling of positivist ideas of the archive as a neutral repository of evidence and have promoted critical images of its contingent and unfinished existence.

It is not an exaggeration to point out that a critically engaged anthropology with the archive clearly reveals the relevance of its knowledge about the present. Documents, images, and sounds are not understood as remnants of a distant past disconnected from the present, but as key tools in processes of identity reclamation, resilience, and social struggles that are empowered through the valorization of archives. Their materials are essential for reflecting on knowledge construction processes, intellectual network formation, and population governance strategies. In this dialogue with these sources, it has been somewhat inevitable to review in the archives key strategies for understanding and untangling the complex web of knowledge and power in which anthropology and other human sciences have unfolded since their professionalization and globalization from the late 19th century.

In this issue of the Anthropology Bulletin of the University of Antioquia, we invite all those interested in reflecting on the relationships between anthropology and archives.

In addition to addressing the anthropological community, we make a special call to researchers from other social sciences, library science, humanities, and arts to share their experiences of working with and encountering archives and anthropology, and anthropology in the archives.

We will accept contributions that are built upon or intersect with anthropological questions in the following thematic areas:

  • The places of archives in contemporary anthropological practice
  • Ethnographies of / about / with archives
  • Archives as media/spaces of resistance and reclamation
  • Anthropology(s), history(ies), memory(ies), and archival science(s): disciplinary tensions
  • Experimentations with archives: intersections with arts and humanities
  • Materiality of archives: texts, images, and sounds

The deadline for receiving article, audiovisual essay, and review proposals is January 15, 2025. Proposals will be accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. We recommend consulting the editorial process information and author guidelines on the Bulletin's website:

https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/boletin/about/submissions