| Titre | L'histoire vivante | |
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| Auteur | Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch | |
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Revue | Cahiers d'études africaines |
| Numéro | Vol. 16, no 61-62, 1976 Histoire africaine : constatations, contestations | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Études et essais |
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| Page | 67-73 | |
| Résumé anglais |
C. Coquery-Vidrovitch— ~~Living History.~~ Modem historical method—the so-called New History school—concerns itself with establishing trends and periods, based upon a study of the interaction of economie and social forces rather than with bare events or facts taken out of context. The historian no longer aims or pretends to aim at a neutral 'objectivity', which, in any case, was never more than an intellectual illusion, ignoring, deliberately or not, the influence of the prevailing ideologies. The historian ~~has~~ to make choices, be it only in his angle of approach—e. g., in Africa, to guard from European ethnocentrism. Touching any particular event the question to ask should be ' How was it made possible?' rather than ' What did happen?' Which does not mean dispensing with erudition, but only not taking it as an end in itself. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cea_0008-0055_1976_num_16_61_2890 |
