The historical processes and their cultural dimension in the contemporary local context

Abstract

In the art of reconstructing the regional and local histories the historian faces a social reality that reflects a community or a human group, in a concrete space that has established economic, political, sociocultural and mental bonds among their members, being defined their historical unit. In the study of the microhistory the cultural practices are recognized as essential factor of the local and regional identity that allows the distinction among communities, groups and regions. The development of projects of historical investigation demand the necessity to assume a focus historiographical that conceives the cultural dimension of the event or historical process.  

This scientific-methodological premise allows to define the objective of this proposal: to argue the importance of the analysis of the cultural dimension of the historical processes starting from the inheritance and the cultural contribution of the historical phenomenon in their condition of human work. In this sense, they stand out epistemological, cultural and scientific considerations that associate to the investigative incursion and their repercussion in the invigoration of the traditional securities and the integral development of the towns. 

The study included the analysis of having been national and local historiography, the principles of the methodology of the historical investigation and the most current approaches about the total history.