Abstract

ORDORICA, Camila. The Case of Mexico’s General Archive of the Nation from the pages of the Boletín Oficial, 1930-2020. Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2022, n.163, pp.269-288.  Epub Feb 27, 2024. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.163.2022.1222.

The General Archive of the Nation (AGN) in Mexico has functioned for more than two-hundred and thirty years, but there are no contemporary studies on its history. Faced with this problem, in this article I study the last ninety years of the AGN's history from the study of the Boletín del Archivo General de la Nación, understood as a discursive form that functions as a record transmitter of knowledge and an indicator of historical change. The main argument of this article is that archival science as a feminized auxiliary science of history has been neglected by the production of historical knowledge under assumptions advanced by sexist premises. In light of this, I propose a methodology through which archival science and the craft of archivists come to the fore in the historical analysis of Mexican archival history.

Keywords : México; archivistics; archives; feminism; women; library science.

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