Les élites de Saint-Domingue au XVIIIe siècle : réflexions méthodologiques

• Main Author: Zélie Navarro-Andraud
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2010-12-01
• Series: Caravelle
• Subjects: Démarche méthodologique; Historiographie; Bibliographie; Prosopographie; Analyse critique
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/7278

Essential to all types of research, the choice of a methodological procedure must be relevant to the discipline, the theme and the aims of the study. Within this perspective, this attempt to elaborate a thought pretends to be a presentation, step by step, of a methodological procedure, from the beginnings of the research till the examination and critical analysis of materials and sources. Trying to respond to such ambition, this article presents a specific method : prosography. Indeed, the object here is not to display a survey of the multiple methods of analysis in human sciences, but to present the complete precision of a procedure and of a stream of thought by basing the arguments upon the case of a precise research subject.