“Guardião da memória”

A documentação sobre o Corpo de Saúde do Exército no Brasil do século XIX e possibilidades de pesquisa no AHEx-RJ

Abstract

This article analyzes research possibilities in the Arquivo Histórico do Exército (RJ, Brazil) based on the documentation of the Health Services of the same institution during the years 1865 to 1867, written during the Paraguayan War. With theoretical support in the concepts of Historiographic Operation, by Michel de Certeau, Memory, by Paul Ricoeur and Epistemologies of the South, by Boaventura Santos and Paula Meneses, a hypothesis is defended that affirms the importance of the Archive in focus to research interested in military history and non-military history. Supports the idea that one should to think of Brazilian military archives as places with high potential for strengthening historiographical renewal movements that need to be occupied in order to change their image of instruments restricted to the military, male and white public.