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Anthropologists play a role in the recovery of Historical Memory,
since we distinguish our identity through field work
and working with people,
basically to be with people and especially to recuparate testimonies.
This is not done in a common discussion, but using a methodology,
which requires us to empathize with the people who we interview.
We have to contextualize these people.
However, basically, what most defines us
is looking for more evidence and recuperating testimonies,
although we also work with other sources.
We connect all of this work with documentary sources
which are written, photographic, or can also be sound recordings, etc.
With this material we produce an analysis that often differs
from others presented by different specialists.
As anthropologists,
we focus on issues that others do not work so ***;
we analyze rituals and other practices
and actions that take place.
The audiovisual aspect is fundamental in giving weight to the testimony.
We are talking about people who are in the last stages of their lives
and are telling us very important things,
and it is precisely these people, already very old,
often nonagenarians and octogenarians,
who say that now we are the ones we have to become witnesses.
And for us, to be witness is to tell them:
you are going to keep speaking, unfortunately not while being alive,
but through a screen.
This way, your testimony will continue flowing,
especially to the youth, to whom basically all of the material
that we are gathering is aimed.