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

• Main Author: Misgav Har-Peled
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Centre de Recherches Historiques 2010-06-01
• Series: L'Atelier du CRH
• Subjects: anthropological history; anthropological turn; decolonization; engagement; Le Goff (Jacques)
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/acrh/1914
• ISSN: 1760-7914

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.