Testimonial orality, uses and resources. Transdisciplinarity and social construction of knowledge

Abstract

This dissertation features a postgraduate teaching experience in Chiapas. Linked to the programs of the Master of Cultural Studies and the Ph.D. in Regional Studies, both attached to the PNPC register from CONACyT in Mexico. It concerns the technical-methodological importance of testimonial orality in human and social sciences, as well as the broad usage of memories, remembrance and the memory in history, anthropology, sociology and other sociocultural studies.

It advocates for both the abandonment of the isolated mono-disciplinary approach and for an orality without adjectives. It presents the necessary transdisciplinarity from resources of individual and collective memory; from the comprehension, conceptualization and implementation of their contents to the research field. It describes the process which goes from the marks or inscriptions of the human experience in the individual memory and its transformation into collective memory to its evocation, rearticulation, remembrance and “memory work.” And its diction or deposition through the records from orality.

It presents the need to generalize the implementation of this transdisciplinary program to the entire field of sociocultural studies in the field. It describes its constitutive elements and additionally unfolds the academic program in its units, contents and reference materials.