ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a historiographic reconstruction of the origins and development of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF). It is written from an analytical perspective which beginning by characterising the type of dictatorship that was established in Argentina with the coup d’etat of 24 March 1976 aims at researching three main aspects. These three aspects are the modalities of political repression, the conceptual controversies that have arisen around it, and the impact of the work carried out by the EAAF in a trifold fashion: historical knowledge, collective memory, and political and legal practices. The need to differentiate and interrelate both aspects in the analytic sphere was accompanied by a bet: the possibility and the need to classify different types of political regimes according to the degree of repression or tolerance in relation to the different actors and to their political practice.
