The others memory

Abstract

Others memory rescue states the historian’s fundamental task in an effort to fight oblivion forms, uses and abuses. Therefore, a task is established to safeguard individual and social memory. Memory-history binomial, placed in time and space, define the rescue work of life stories, in order to make up a heuristic body that contributes to the hermeneutic process. Starting form an oral story methodology, it claims stimulating individuals to freely remember, in order to impinge on and propitiate biographical accounts that will permit the construction of diverse stories. Historian and informant establish a particular relationship. Subjectivity and partiality are recognized, without damaging the analysis process and the interpretation due to definite historical work. It is pretended, as a result, more than a scientific story, the construction of diverse stories that recover everyday life, individual and collective forms of thought and action, separated from political and official interests that could regulate or determine official stories, imposed by power.