The paper deals with the history of scientific thought in ethnology in Slovakia in the period immediately after the establishment of the Communist regime, i.e. the second half of the 1940s and the first half of the 1950s. This... more
The paper deals with the history of scientific thought in ethnology
in Slovakia in the period immediately after the establishment of the
Communist regime, i.e. the second half of the 1940s and the first
half of the 1950s. This relatively short period was characterised by
rapid changes in definition of the research subject, theoretical and
methodological approaches, scientific goals, and even the discipline’s
very name. The paper focuses on the implementation of the new
methodological orientation, which was named Marxist ethnography.
The authors investigate how Slovak scholars approached the new
orientation and what theoretical concepts appeared during the
period. Furthermore, they explore the question of how the new
methodological orientation was made operational, i.e. how it was
used in research projects and daily scholarly routine. The authors
study scholarly practice as a social process. They examine the
activities of scholars, the relations within the scholarly community,
and the relations between scholars and society. They attempt to
answer the question of whether and how the implementation of
Marxist ethnography influenced ethnological research in Slovakia
in the period, and whether and how it contributed to changes in
scholarly thinking.
Textes réunis par Joëlle Ducos et Christopher Lucken. Chanoine et chancelier de la cathédrale d’Amiens, chirurgien et probablement médecin, auteur d’une autobiographie astrologique et peut-être d’un traité d’alchimie, possible auteur du... more
Textes réunis par Joëlle Ducos et Christopher Lucken. Chanoine et chancelier de la cathédrale d’Amiens, chirurgien et probablement médecin, auteur d’une autobiographie astrologique et peut-être d’un traité d’alchimie, possible auteur du «De vetula» qui se fait passer pour l’oeuvre ultime d’Ovide, poète et écrivain, Richard de Fournival apparaît comme l’une des figures les plus révélatrices de la culture encyclopédique du XIIIe siècle. En témoigne tout particulièrement sa bibliothèque qu’il décrit dans la «Biblionomia» et qui apparaît comme une véritable synthèse des connaissances et des intérêts intellectuels de son temps. Réunissant les contributions de spécialistes des disciplines du «quadrivium», de la médecine, de l’astrologie et de l’alchimie, cet ouvrage se propose d’étudier les sciences telles qu’elles apparaissent dans les oeuvres et les entreprises de cet auteur majeur du XIIIe siècle tout en l’inscrivant dans le contexte scientifique de son temps.
With the arrival of missionaries in China in late Ming period．Chinese literati began to learn European science and religion. In order to promote the study of Western learning，some Chinese scholars developed and expressed their attitudes... more
With the arrival of missionaries in China in late Ming period．Chinese literati began to learn European science and religion. In order to promote the study of Western learning，some Chinese scholars developed and expressed their attitudes towards Western science. Several of these arguments were taken up and further developed by scholars in early Qing period. This paper analyses the origin of the theory of "Retrieving Lost Rites from Barbarians” (li shi qiu ye) and its transmission in its social and cultural context, hoping that it might be of help for one to understand the attitudes of Chinese literati towards Western learning as a whole.
