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Essai Bibliographique Sur L'archéologie Francophone De La Essai bibliographique sur l’archéologie francophone de la Mésoamérique Bibliographical essay upon the French-speaking contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology Ensayo bibliográfico sobre la arqueología francófona de Mesoamérica Eric Taladoire Access Archaeology aeopr ch es r s A A y c g c e o l s o s e A a r c Ah About Access Archaeology Access Archaeology offers a different publishing model for specialist academic material that might traditionally prove commercially unviable, perhaps due to its sheer extent or volume of colour content, or simply due to its relatively niche field of interest. This could apply, for example, to a PhD dissertation or a catalogue of archaeological data. All Access Archaeology publications are available in open-access e-pdf format and in print format. 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This model may well evolve over time, but its ambition will always remain to publish archaeological material that would prove commercially unviable in traditional publishing models, without passing the expense on to the academic (author or reader). aeopr ch es r s A A y c g c e o l s o s e A a r c Ah Essai bibliographique sur l’archéologie francophone de la Mésoamérique Bibliographical essay upon the French-speaking contributions to Mesoamerican archaeology Ensayo bibliográfico sobre la arqueología francófona de Mesoamérica Eric Taladoire Access Archaeology aeopr ch es r s A A y c g c e o l s o s e A a r c Ah Archaeopress Publishing Ltd Summertown Pavilion 18-24 Middle Way Summertown Oxford OX2 7LG www.archaeopress.com ISBN 978-1-78969-099-6 ISBN 978-1-78969-100-9 (e-Pdf) © E Taladoire and Archaeopress 2019 Cover: Louis Capitan, The upper Temple of the Jaguars, at Chichen Itza, at the beginning of the XXth century. Fonds Capitan, Collège de France, Paris. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owners. This book is available direct from Archaeopress or from our website www.archaeopress.com In memoriam Ferdinand Courtois A few years ago, an American colleague (now a friend) wrote in a paper about our investigations at Tonina: unpublished! Of course, it was unpublished: the four volumes were written in French! Avant Propos / Foreword / Prólogo La présente bibliographie mésoaméricaniste francophone répond à plusieurs objectifs. Pendant des décennies, les trois langues « officielles » des Congrès Internationaux des Américanistes étaient l’Espagnol, l’Anglais et le Français. Cela peut paraître injuste pour le Brésilien et le Portugais, évidemment, mais aussi pour nos collègues italiens, allemands, qui ont apporté des contributions d’une très haute qualité, avec les travaux de Seler, Krickeberg ou plus récemment Aimi, Prem, Grube, Mayer, Domenici … C’est regrettable, mais c’est ainsi pour des raisons historiques, les premiers Congrès ayant eu lieu à Nancy, au Luxembourg et à Bruxelles. Il ne nous appartient pas de procéder à la même démarche pour d’autres langues ou d’autres approches. Nous ne cherchons pas non plus à inverser le cours naturel de l’évolution de la recherche. Depuis les années 1950, le développement des recherches nationales au Mexique et en Amérique centrale et le poids des chercheurs des Etats-Unis ont progressivement gommé le rôle du Français. Parallèlement, l’amplification et la structuration des recherches en Belgique, en France, au Canada, en Suisse ont entraîné une multiplication des projets de fouilles dans tout le continent. Cet accroissement s’accompagne de publications qui sont désormais, en majorité, rédigées dans les deux langues dominantes, l’Anglais et l’Espagnol. Il suffit, pour s’en faire une idée de consulter les sites internet, comme, par exemple, celui de l’UMR 8092 ArchAm Archéologie des Amériques : (https://www.zotero.org/groups/2049774/ publications_archam/items/). En parallèle, l’intérêt pour les civilisations du Nouveau Monde, qui s’exprime dans de nombreuses expositions et manifestations publiques, donne lieu à la publication de catalogues, de numéros spéciaux de revues. Il s’agit souvent de traductions, mais pas uniquement. De nombreuses contributions ont été rédigées expressément dans la perspective de leur publication en Français, ce qui leur confère une originalité indiscutable. Avec cette bibliographie, nous souhaitons donc 1) faire un état des lieux; 2) mettre à la disposition de tous le plus grand nombre possible de références, et attirer l’attention sur des contributions originales, souvent illustrées d’objets méconnus: les travaux d’histoire de l’archéologie de notre collègue Leonardo López Luján confirment l’importance de cette démarche pour l’étude du Grand Temple de Mexico-Tenochtitlan1; 3) évaluer l’impact des jeunes formations francophones; 4) et surtout insister sur l’importance de la variété des points de vue dans la recherche. Il nous paraît en effet fondamental de confronter cette diversité et de tenir compte des approches méthodologiques. Une langue n’est pas seulement un mode d’expression. Elle exprime aussi un mode de pensée, un raisonnement: les Français se réfèrent à Descartes, les Anglo-Saxons à Guillaume d’Occam, pour ne citer que ces deux façons de penser. Chaque chercheur aborde un problème en fonction de ses préjugés, de sa formation, de sa culture, de ses moyens, de ses méthodes. C’est de leur confrontation que naît l’amélioration des connaissances, des outils d’interprétation et par conséquent de notre compréhension de ces civilisations. Au vu des résultats, avouons notre surprise: l’accroissement récent, mais indiscutable, des publications en Français nous a pris de court. Nous le supposions, sans soupçonner son ampleur. Cette renaissance de l’américanisme francophone, et à plus forte raison européen (la revue allemande Mexicon est désormais une référence indispensable), démontre un dynamisme essentiel à la recherche sur les civilisations mésoaméricaines. 1 La synthèse de R. Navarro Genie sur la sculpture du Nicaragua repose en grande partie sur les vieux articles d’auteurs comme Désiré Pector ou Carl Bovalius. R. Navarro Genie’s synthesis on the Nicaragua sculptures relies heavily upon old contributions by Désiré Pector and Carl Bovalius. La sintesis de R. Navarro Genie sobre las esculturas de Nicaragua aprovechó ampliamente los viejos artículos de Désiré Pector y Carl Bovalius. i Répertorier toutes les publications s’avère une tâche d’autant plus difficile que, malgré l’aide d’Internet, nombre de références, en particulier les plus anciennes, sont incomplètes. Nous n’avons certainement pas pu dénicher toutes les œuvres. Nous avons délibérément exclus de cette bibliographie les catalogues de vente d’objets procédant souvent de pillages, voire de falsifications, les ouvrages fumeux sur 2012 ou l’origine extra-terrestre des Mayas, les romans, les bandes dessinées et autres écrits anecdotiques. Nous n’avons pas non plus pris en compte la littérature grise d’accès difficile : rapports inédits, travaux universitaires de type Maîtrise. De même, sauf exceptions, il ne nous a pas semblé pertinent d’inclure les publications en ligne, les blogs, en constante augmentation et d’un accès plus facile. En revanche, dans la perspective anthropologique qui est le fondement même de notre discipline, nous avons inclus de nombreux titres qui concernent l’ethnohistoire, l’épigraphie, mais aussi l’histoire coloniale, du moins pour les débuts, voire quelques ouvrages de géographie, d’ethnologie ou de linguistique, lorsque leurs apports impliquaient directement l’archéologie. Notre corpus reste pourtant incomplet, en particulier pour ce qui touche justement à l’anthropologie. Il subsiste également de nombreuses lacunes (pages, éditeurs, etc.). Il revient aux responsables, aux auteurs, aux amateurs de compléter, de corriger, d’enrichir ce corpus, de le tenir à jour, voire d’éliminer une référence s’ils le préfèrent. Nous avons suivi autant que possible les normes bibliographiques établies par American Antiquity. The present bibliography of French contributions to Mesoamerican studies aims to several purposes. For more than a century, Spanish, English and French were the three official languages of the International Congresses of Americanists. This may seem unfair for Portuguese and Brazilian, of course, but also for our German or Italian colleagues, such as Seler, Krickeberg, or more recently Aimi, Prem, Grube, Mayer, Domenici … who have published outstanding contributions. We may regret it, but this situation stems from historical reasons: the first Congresses took place in Nancy, Luxemburg and Brussels.
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