Abstract

ZARAMA RINCON, Rosa Isabel; BENAVIDES SILVA, Fabián Leonardo  and  ESCOBAR HERRERA, Andrés Mauricio. Ipiales and Tulcán: between the everyday and the construction of identity at the border, 1886-1916. Approach to documentary sources. Hist. Soc. [online]. 2016, n.31, pp.135-169. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n31.55556.

In Colombia and its border countries meets multiple factors that affect societies and spaces in these areas. This invites social scientists social to deepen their unders- tanding, addressing issues such as everyday life, land tenure and national identity. In this context, the current research was to identify and describe primary sources located in the cities of Quito, Tulcán, Guayaquil, Ipiales and Bogotá, in order to have a database to serve as a tool to understand and analyze consistently the past. Thus, the identified and described evidence base regarding this initiative provides a clear picture of the size, nature and location of a collection composed of 2420 pieces. Also, the work of documentary description allowed thematic series grouping, which outline their importance for research into the political, social and material life on the border of Colombia and Ecuador; the economic and administrative contingencies own border crossing; consular services; customs administration and joints and political processes (elections, party rivalries, regime changes, turns, etc.) that affected the lives of these societies.

Keywords : Tulcán; Ipiales; identity; daily life; land use; primary documents.

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