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Aussi, ont-ils re\u00e7u des \u00e9chos d'autres gens plus lointains, \u00e9chos qui, parfois se r\u00e9v\u00e8lent des informations pr\u00e9cieuses. Mais, en m\u00eame temps, on a actuellement une vive conscience des probl\u00e8mes d'interpr\u00e9tation et des doutes de cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 qui subissent les chercheurs \u00e0 qui les textes europ\u00e9ens puissent \u00eatre utiles. Il serait presque inutile de rappeler que ces probl\u00e8mes-l\u00e0 ne sont pas un exclusif de la manipulation des sources europ\u00e9ennes mais se posent aussi, en ce qui concerne l'histoire de l'Afrique Occidentale, pour les sources arabes d'origine ext\u00e9rieure aux soci\u00e9t\u00e9s \u00e9tudi\u00e9es.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Les textes v\u00e9hiculent des <jats:italic>repr\u00e9sentations<\/jats:italic>: leurs donn\u00e9es sur les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s africaines sont une construction mentale d'une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ext\u00e9rieure per\u00e7ue, (re)construction qui implique la mobilisation des sch\u00e9mas mentaux int\u00e9rioris\u00e9s et d'existence pr\u00e9alable et autonome envers cette r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ext\u00e9rieure. Des repr\u00e9sentations qui se bornent aux limites d'un observateur ou r\u00e9dacteur dont la pens\u00e9e est ordonn\u00e9e par des cat\u00e9gories europ\u00e9ennes, exog\u00e8nes \u00e0 l'object de connaissance et qui, de fa\u00e7on plus \u00e9largie, sont relatives aux conditions de production du texte en cause.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Ce sont pr\u00e9cisement les repr\u00e9sentations qui font l'object de recherche auquel cet \u00e9tude se situe: un object de charni\u00e8re entre l'histoire europ\u00e9enne et l'histoire de l'Afrique. Il demande un double positionement et approche soit des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s europ\u00e9ennes (qui produisent un discours anthropologique sur l'Africain), soit des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s africaines (object dinamique de ces repr\u00e9sentations).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2307\/3171934","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2006,5,8]],"date-time":"2006-05-08T08:58:07Z","timestamp":1147078687000},"page":"75-86","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["La Perception Du Mande et De L'Identite Mandingue Dans Les Textes Europeens, 1453\u20131508"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Jose da Silva","family":"Horta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0361541300001704_ref007","first-page":"1100","volume-title":"Monumenta Cartographica Africa Aegypti","volume":"4","author":"Kamal","year":"1936"},{"key":"S0361541300001704_ref017","first-page":"12","article-title":"Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Capit\u00e3o e Governador de S. 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