The handbag of Susana B: Lost and found stories (in Museos de la Subversión)
For eight years now, I have been studying an object that no longer exists. I am referring to Museos de la Subversion, which functioned in Argentina during the last dictatorship. This paper approaches to a particular reflection, that has to do with a certain epistemology of the researched object -how...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/17101 |
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| Sumario: | For eight years now, I have been studying an object that no longer exists. I am referring to Museos de la Subversion, which functioned in Argentina during the last dictatorship. This paper approaches to a particular reflection, that has to do with a certain epistemology of the researched object -how to know through unstable data- but that has specially to do with the continuity between these Museums and clandestine detention centres. Taking into account one of these Museums and a specific object (Campo de Mayo, a handbag), this paper proposes a recovering movement. One that intends to restore a fragment to the thing it was tore off from. That movement hides a sort of biography: that of a personal item that, passing through burocracies and violences, evolves in multiple things -“war trophy”, evidence in display, judicial trail. |
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