ABSTRACT
Peru, reminding us that archives are historical artifacts and not transparent sources from where to learn facts about the past. Kathryn Burns, Into the Archive (Durham, NC, 2010), p. 15. See also Roberto González Echevarría, Myth and Archive (Durham, NC, 1998 [1990]); Natalie Davis, Fiction in the Archives (Stanford, 1987); Carol Steedman, Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (New Brunswick, NJ, 2002), and Ann L. Stoler, Along the Archival Grain (Princeton, NJ: 2010).
