The Historical and Geographic Institute of Rio Grande do Sul - notes about a historiographical operation

Abstract

The social place of the production of historical knowledge highlights the assumptions from which the historian who is dedicated to the understanding of a given historical conjuncture departs. In this sense, the role of institutions must be analyzed, since it directly influences the conceptions, methods and meanings of historical research and, above all, the result or final product. The southern association of History, IHGRGS, must be understood, therefore, as a privileged space for the historiographic operation of Rio Grande do Sul, perceiving, in the writing of the history of its intellectuals, the implications of its theoretical-methodological orientations and relations with other institutions. The present article intends, therefore, to verify how such relations occurred in the historiography of Rio Grande do Sul in the 20th century, starting from Michel de Certeau's theory about the writing of history and, at the end, establishing dialogues with the Rüsenian theory about the social function of historical knowledge.