Encyclopedia of Historiographies : Africa, the Americas, Asia

Presentation

What relationships do human societies have with their past, and what narratives do they make of time gone by? For this first volume of the Encyclopedia of Historiographies. Africa, the Americas, Asia, 157 specialists representing 88 academic institutions in France and around the world explore the universe of human productions that constitute sources for the historian, and decipher the many modalities ("scientific", literary, artistic, monumental...) of writing the past. Evoking Africa, Latin America, Asia and Oceania in turn, the 216 entries in the book present historical materials of all kinds, from all eras, often little-known, as well as the history of their uses.

The collective enterprise that is the Encyclopedia is intended to be innovative: the aim is to stimulate a resolutely non-Western-centric historiographical reflection that usefully complements traditional epistemological approaches. A new tool for historical knowledge forged in the age of globalization, the Encyclopedia of Historiographies is also a genuine invitation to travel.

Authors

Nathalie Kouamé is Professor of History at the University of Paris and a member of the CESSMA UMR 245 laboratory. A historian of Japan in the modern period (XVI^e-XIX^e century), she specializes in the study of religious facts, which she considers in all their dimensions.

Eric P. Meyer is an agrégé in history, and has published numerous works on the social history of Sri Lanka in the pre-colonial and colonial periods, as well as on the genesis of Tamil separatism and Buddhist identity movements. After directing the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CNRS/EHESS) from 1983 to 1991, he was until 2009 Professor of Indian World History at Inalco, where he was also Vice-President.

Anne Viguier is an agrégée in history, a senior lecturer at Inalco (South Asia and Himalaya Department) and a member of the CESSMA UMR 245 laboratory. She specializes in the history of India in the modern and contemporary periods. In particular, she has worked on the urban world of the Tamil country during the British colonial period, and is pursuing research on the social and cultural history of South India in the contemporary period.

1012 + 1036 pages (two volumes)
18 x 24 cm
Publication date: 02/07/2020
ISBN: 9782858313440