Les recherches en histoire orale menées par un autochtone, ou L'inconvénient d'être du cru

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ID3659040
AuthorsMamadou Diawara (0000-0002-7958-4525, corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume25
Issue97
Pages5-19
Publication date1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers d études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-0055 • E-ISSN: 1777-5353
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/cea.1985.2183
OpenAlexW2005832981
LanguageFR
Citations received23

M. Diawara-Aboriginal Research in Oral History: The Plight of the Native Son. Social sciences research in Africa, especially in history, has long been dominated by non-Africans-military officers, political administrators and, later on, scholars. In the last decades Western-trained African specialists have entered the field. While the former put forth their otherness as a proof of the scientific validity of their work, the latter use the opposite argument and point to belonging as a criterion of objectivity. Both arguments appear somewhat obsolete insofar as a confrontation of views is a necessity for ail research in the social sciences. The native scholar working on the history of his own country is bound to observe the rules and customs of his group: even more so as his experience of another (i.e. Western) way of life exposes him to the suspicion of the keepers of tradition. He must solve a contradiction between his own scientific ambitions and the local System of know-ledge transmission (which also is or has been his

Argument (complex analysis · Contradiction · Epistemology · Ethnology · Humanities · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Philosophy

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