Liberación o dependencia" en el debate parlamentario de la "Ley Taiana: Un acercamiento al enfoque etnográfico para el estudio de la cuestión universitaria en el pasado reciente

the present article proposes to envisage the possibilities of an ethnographic approach for studying the recent past. in that sense, the parliamentary debate for the production of the "taiana act" (1974) is analyzed, particularly around the idea of a university "at the service of liberation". this debate is considered to be privileged to give access to the perspective of the actors and political parties represented at the congress, locating it in a specific period of the university history, as well in a widest context of the political disputes which go through it. the extended use of the concept of "liberation" by different political groups obliges to turn problematic its multiple meanings. it is intended to explore such meanings parting from the parliamentary course of the draft initially filed by the executive and modified by the congress. finally, it is concluded that the "taiana act" can hardly be conceived as the pure expression of a "model of university". far from it, the university policies should be considered as a world of tensions, power relations, strategies and disputes between different actors of university and non-university community in a specific situation.