The history of sensitivities and Latin America. Another method of writing history in Venezuela ... and elsewhere

To register into a new historiographical tendency often implies that previous definitions have to be questioned. Such is the case for the history of sensibilities, with its double trend of sensorial anthropology and attention given to the << reception of the event >>, in terms of affects, emotions and passions released in certain cases and experimented at different levels. So much so, since this new way of writing history, by giving a real status to forgotten protagonists in history and specially, in official history, doesn't bring about a breaking of with social history, and more specifically with precursory. genders such as the history of mentalities or, more recently, the history of representations. This essay proves that the Latin American example and the liveliness of this new way of writing history testify in a very convincing way the emergence of this phenomenon.