How to Name the Past? Archival Disputes in the AGN

In mid-March, the General Archives of the Nation (AGN) announced the opening of a great dialogue on the possibility of renaming two of its documentary funds: “Negros y Esclavos” and “Caciques e Indios”. Within the framework of this initiative, the AGN has designed a series of conferences and meetings that seek to address, from multiple angles, the technical, epistemological and political challenges linked to this possible change of name. Somehow…