Abstract
This article reviews Victoria Ocampo’s intellectual trajectory in the light of the reflections of a sociologically oriented intellectual history. This approach observes Ocampo’s role as a witness to the constitution of a cultivated habitus, central to the composition of the Argentinian intellectual field. I propose that three aspects of the Testimonios de Ocampo - cultured use of non-native languages, the urban spatiality of their creation and their epistolary - elucidate devices for the enshrining of intellectual attitudes that underlie the self-image of the early twentieth century Argentinian elite and serve as a paradigm for a reflection on the interdisciplinary relevance of the testimony as an observatory of social practices gathered in the devices of cultural distinction
Keywords:
Victoria Ocampo; Intellectual history; Biography; Distinction; Cultural elites