Livro / Recovered voices, newfound questions: family archives and historical research
UC Digitalis
Colonizing land, creating societies, making and remaking archival memories: family archives and social power in the Canary Islands from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Colonizing land, creating societies, making and remaking archival memories: family archives and social power in the Canary Islands from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries
This paper analyzes the evolution of family archive practices in the Canary
Islands during the Early Modern Age. Since the colonization of the islands to the implementation
of liberalism, most of elite families needed the archive for several purposes in each
context: to manage the social reproduction of the family, to support the social promotion,
to manage the family property or to create a noble family narrative. Through empirical
examples this paper examines some events that involved new models of archival practices
by the insular elites.
Este trabalho analisa a evolução das práticas arquivísticas familiares nas Ilhas
Canárias durante a Idade Moderna. Desde a colonização das ilhas até à implementação do
liberalismo, a maioria das elites familiares utilizou o arquivo para suprir diferentes necessidades
consoante o contexto: para gerir a reprodução social da família, para apoiar a
promoção social, gerir o património familiar ou criar uma narrativa nobiliárquica familiar.
Através de exemplos empíricos, este trabalho foca alguns dos aspetos que abrangem novos
modelos de práticas arquivísticas desenvolvidas pelas elites insulares.