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Artefact. Techniques, history and Human sciences is a francophone academic journal promoting research into the techniques and the materiality of practices in human societies over the longue durée and from an international perspective. Its ambition is to bring together historical, archeological and anthropological approaches that focus on techniques, understood in its widest sense. The notion of "techniques" comprises here aspects of production and work, as well as knowledges, processes of transmission and innovation, but also the techniques of the body, of politics or of religion. The journal is also interested in reflexive approaches and encourages methodological and epistemological analyses. Finally, the multiplicity of sources that are involved in the study of techniques justifies a special interest in material heritage, in particular in collections. The journal reflects the current interests of academic research in this field, as welle as exhibitions and digital reconstructions of technologies. It fonctions as a link between researchers and institutes of conservation. Our approach towards "techniques" is therefore very open, whether it concerns themes, methods or epistemological questions.

Latest issue
21 | 2024
Les savoirs sur la Chine, entre terrain et bibliothèques (XVIe-XIXe siècle)

The Circulation of Knowledge on China, Between the Field and the Libraries (16th-19th Centuries)
Edited by Axel Le Roy and Eliette Soulier

This issue features articles by seven young researchers studying the construction of knowledge about China, from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Using sources in several languages and of different types – manuscripts, books, objects, prints, photographs, maps – the authors trace the circulation of knowledge between the field and libraries, between Asia and Europe. They highlight the role and practices of a wide range of institutions and actors, from missionaries and cartographers to playwrights, diplomats and merchants. The issues discussed in this issue thus lead us to examine, from different perspectives, the process of construction and circulation of European knowledge about the Chinese world.

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