Lighthouse Worker's Watch Room
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This book is an interview record with François Achtogo, a representative figure of the French "New Historiography". Akhtogo was deeply influenced by historians and anthropologists such as Vernan, Reinhard Kozelek, and Lévi-Strauss, and introduced historical anthropology into his own research. In the book, Akhtogo recalls his personal experience and discusses the positioning of historians, understanding of time and memory, judgment of presentism, thinking about the other, and the application of historical anthropology in research in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. In the interview, Akhtogo also talked about his criticism of contemporary French historians, analyzed cutting-edge issues in contemporary French historiography, and made many thought-provoking discussions on issues such as time and the evolution of time concepts, contemporary history, the connection between presentism and ancient history. "The Lighthouse Worker's Duty Room" fully restores the relaxed and pleasant conversation scene, allowing readers to experience the flexible thinking and profound thoughts of historians on the spot, and comprehensively displays the style of the leading figures in contemporary historical thinking.
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