Publisher's Synopsis
Making available to the public the library and archives of the Poinssot family, whose members over three generations worked, from the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th century, in the fields of archeology and history of North Africa, opens up new fields of study. These archives of the discovery and exploration of North Africa make it possible to question the modalities of a science in progress and, above all, to direct the spotlight towards little-known actors confined to the margins of the territories of scientific archeology. A constellation of adventurer figures, whose productions shed new light on both the social, economic and human conditions of archaeological exploration and the creation of archaeological collections in Maghreb museums, such as that of the realia of scientific publishing. This conference proposes a reflection on the contours of a European archeology in the making - often applied to a fantasized terrain - and intends to shed light on the gaps, the errors, the interpretative voids such as archaeological impostures, through these figures of adventurers, in the context of European colonization.
