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Abstract

Within the field of history today there is a basic tension between two tendencies: an internal need for theory-making and an external demand for greater certainty. This tension derives from the fact that these tendencies are apparently irreconcilable, the first leading to the very negation of the second, to a questioning of whether history can effectively capture that which is real, presenting definitive, irrefutable evidence. The author enters this debate by considering the case of archives, one of historian's research sources. Looking at two basic types of sources - oral and written - he author endeavors to show how these are always the product of a historian's intellectual invention, in addition to bearing the marks of whoever produced them and of the context in which they were produced.

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