Décoloniser l’histoire occidentale : Les naissances politiques de l’anthropologie historique

One wonders why Jacques Le Goff has used the term anthropology instead of ethnology or ethno-history which could equally reflect his intellectual approach. If we consider the political dimension of the original gesture in historical anthropology, we see that it is an effort to give a history to the...

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Main Author: Misgav Har-Peled
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques
Series:L'Atelier du CRH
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acrh/1914
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Summary:One wonders why Jacques Le Goff has used the term anthropology instead of ethnology or ethno-history which could equally reflect his intellectual approach. If we consider the political dimension of the original gesture in historical anthropology, we see that it is an effort to give a history to the subjects who were considered without history. As for Levi Strauss for historians, anthropology was involved in the effort of decolonization and of integrating it in social sciences.
ISSN:1760-7914