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The 1914 uprising of Sam Neua (Houaphan Province, NE Laos) laid bare complex processes of social and economic mobilization in the mountainous hinterlands of French Indochina. As a first prelude to the upcoming anticolonial struggles in the Lao-Vietnamese borderlands, this heterogeneous movement is only little understood in its sociopolitical and cultural dimensions. Though initiated by armed Chinese bands, the participation of different upland ethnic groups suggests that the uprising was also the result of socioeconomic discontent and disquiet among the local population. At the beginning of the twentieth century, colonial interventions in upland Laos unsettled economic and political configurations, and confronted local powerbrokers with both restrictions and new opportunities. Colonial infrastructure development negatively affected Chinese trade and mobility in northern Indochina – a key factor for the escalation in Sam Neua. By means of combining microhistory and historical anthropology, this paper aims to investigate forms of mobility, mimetic encounters, and shifting conceptions of sociopolitical hierarchies in colonial Indochina that have so far received only scant attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although corporality has only fairly recently become a topic of interest in the social sciences, Marius Lazurca's extensive study shows how the debate surrounding the body has been essential in the development of the relationship between the deeply rooted Graeco-Roman and the emerging Christian worldviews. The author explains how the body has found itself at the intersection between various discourses, such as philosophy, medicine, law and theology, and how it is key to understanding the significant social and religious transformations taking place in the Early Roman Empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This brief response article aims at addressing some of the themes covered in the main articles of this special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "Social Biographies of the Ancient World," from the perspective of historical anthropology. The emphasis is on the relevance of cultural variability for understanding historical situations, especially those coming from ancient contexts, and considering also the kind of textual and epigraphic sources we dispose of. The Bourdieuian approach to ancient historical contexts is understood within the contributions that the discipline of anthropology has made to historiography, particularly during the 1960 s and 1970 s and with regard to microhistorical approaches and other anthropologically influenced perspectives in history-writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the materials of the Russian State Military Historical Archive, which have being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the article examines the history of visits to the Siberian Cadet Corps and to the Preparatory Boarding School of the Siberian Cossack Host by the War Minister of the Russian Empire, Adjutant General Aleksey N. Kuropatkin. There have been no special studies of this visit. The theoretical basis of this research is a combination of anthropological and institutional approaches with the principle of consistency and the problem–based method. The trip to Siberia was carried out in order to personally familiarize the War Minister with the state of the Siberian Military District created shortly before, as well as with its largest points, one of which was Omsk. The importance of this visit is noted for assessing the household condition of the Corps and setting up the educational process in it. It is found that the main identified shortcomings are the lack of plumbing and modern sewerage, a small gym, an unsuccessful daily routine and unsatisfactory teaching of foreign languages. The article first publishes the «Report on the inspection of the Siberian Cadet Corps» on September 30– October 5, 1899, accompanied by the War Minister, Colonel Count Georgiy A. Bobrinsky. It is concluded that this is one of the most detailed descriptions of the Corps at the turn of the XIX–XX century, which is of great value for the study of the history of military educational institutions not only in Siberia, but also in the Russian Empire as a whole.

In the modern state most laws enshrine practical social norms in a way that everyone can be aware of. Laws take a legalistic form, as generalizing rules and abstract categories. But turning to historical and ethnographic examples, we find legalistic rules that do not bear a neat resemblance to the details and disputes of quotidian life. This raises questions about their purposes and effects. Some of the earliest laws ever made—in Mesopotamia, Israel, and Rome—consisted of ostensibly practical rules, yet they evidently enshrined grander social visions. In this article I examine the connections between the practical and the symbolic. An analogy with ritual performance suggests that even partial sets of laws may connect people with visions of justice and order, thereby garnering loyalty and helping to legitimize the aspirations of the law-makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the early Bohemian reformation (Utraquism) as an alternative Central European project of church reform that has not been as closely connected with the Western European civilizational narrative as the Lutheran reformation. The authors build on cultural anthropological approaches and on the recent 'material turn'. They draw attention to the close historical associations between holy food and holy texts and look into the reformation of religious food and textual practices. They explore how the chalice functioned as a symbol of inclusivity and collective identity and how this became manifest in material culture. The authors analyse innovations in chalice shape (lips and tubes) and provide evidence of private or family chalices, arguing that such chalices re-introduced elements of social hierarchy in the Utraquist communion. In relation to holy food, the authors also focus on fasting, distinguishing two main lines of discourse: 1) the continuation of the medieval religious discourse of gluttony; and 2) difficulties connected with observing fasting regulations north of the Alps. Finally, they point out that the Bohemian reformation lends itself to a study of changing symbols, as suggested by Peter Burke, and they explore the model-like process through which book(s) largely replaced chalice(s) as the main symbol(s) and source(s) of identity among reformed non-Catholic Christians in the new religious situation in Bohemia after 1620. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the first quarter of the 21st century, the issue of the humanization of society in general and the humanization of education in particular was still on the agenda and became even more relevant. It was time to move from declarations and theorizing to humanistic practices. In this, as evidenced by research and teaching experience, the role of historical anthropology is great. Its structure and content, methods and goal-setting contribute not only to successful research, but also to the use of innovative methods of work and the development of research skills of students. Since the historical and anthropological approach has an interdisciplinary nature, the practical question of a lecturer about interdisciplinary connections within the framework of curricula acquires a modern sound. Attention to the fate of an individual and one’s daily life in the past actualizes students' interest in the History course. That is why it is so important for future historians to learn the essence and research practices of historical anthropology. The article examines such issues as the reasons for the origin of this trend, its features at the present stage of historical science, the development of historical anthropology in Russia since the 1990s.

The article analyzes the position of Vice-governor in the system of administrative elite of Akmola, Semipalatinsk and Semirechensk regions of the Russian Empire. Using the normative-legal base of local institutions of these regions, the «formal» position of officials in this position in the general structure of administrative power is characterized. Management in steppe regions is characterized by remoteness of territories from the center of decision-making, high share of nomadic population, marginal position. In this regard, the peculiarities of the position of Vice-governors in the steppe regions and in the interior of Russia are revealed. One of the important features of the service of these officials is the combination of military and civil power in the steppe regions and the lack of a clear division of responsibilities between the elements of the administrative elite. For the socio-cultural characterization of the composition of the Vice-governor corps we used the form lists and personal files of officials kept in the archives: the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region, the Russian State Historical Archive and the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan. These data are published for the first time. The article concludes with a socio-cultural portrait of a typical Vice-governor of a steppe region, an analysis of the typical career trajectories of the official and a comparison of the scope of authority with similar officials from internal Russian provinces.

The article is dedicated to the Soviet politician M. M. Lashevich (1884–1928), a participant in the revolution and the Civil War, chairman of the Siberian Revolutionary Committee. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that his activities as a fellow chairman of the Board of the CER in 1926–1928 little known, as are the causes of death in Harbin. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the final period of Lashevich’s life in the context of the Soviet presence in China, with emphasis placed on the perception of Lashevich’s personality by Russian emigration in Manchuria, the circumstances of his death and posthumous biography using an anthropological approach and the biographical method. The research is based on unpublished sources, ego-documents and periodical materials from Harbin. The author emphasizes that the study of such extraordinary figures as Lashevich is important not only for understanding Soviet policy in China, but also for clarifying the problems of perception and assessment of the activities of Soviet leaders by ideological opponents.

This article examines the history of Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, from 1952 to 1975 in order to understand how pre‐colonial governance of the province laid the groundwork for the problems of weak governance that plagued Enga in the independence era. The most appropriate models to understand this issue, the article claims, come not from the comparative study of decolonised states such as those in Africa, but from the European experience of state formation. Drawing on these models, the article makes two arguments. First, that Enga was governed lightly and ineffectively in the colonial period because there was little Australia wanted to extract from Enga. Second, the structural situation remains largely the same today: governance in Enga is weak because there is little incentive for the national government to rule. Using Enga as a synecdoche for Papua New Guinea as a whole, this paper argues that we may best understand governance issues in Papua New Guinea using models and theories that emphasise the historical continuity between the pre‐ and post‐independence governments of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The encounter between anthropology and history has great potential to illuminate marginalized social actors and the diverse power relations that were in play in the past, especially in the lives of urban Indigenous people. This article traces the trajectory of the growing interchange between anthropology and history and their different methodologies to document Indigenous history in the city. Researching Indigenous pasts in the urban environment poses particular challenges in confronting researchers with specific types of archival silences and cultural-political erasures. Triangulating diverse historiographic and ethnographic sources and perspectives in what I call "ethnography of the archives" can offer strategies for hearing the silenced voices of the urban environment of the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Following the April 25th 1974 revolution, a village in the municipality of Belmonte (Portugal) became the scene of a six-year conflict between a group of small-holder landowners joined by part of the community and a mining company. This article, result of a historical-anthropological study based on ethnographic work and archival research, revisits this socio-environmental conflict, examining the process of local collective mobilisation and the interactions between local and external actors. The motives behind collective mobilization against mining are examined in the context of the post-25th of April structural political transformation. The analysis explores how the post-revolutionary context and the memories of past environmental destruction fueled the villagers' repertoires and vocabularies of contention. Observing the Gaia conflict through the lens of the Revolution allows us to look at the revolutionary process from a micro-sociological perspective, showing the processes of political transformation after the 25th of April and the role of popular participation in the democratization of the country, as well as the institutional disputes over State control and the struggles around the implementation of different development models and policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract The focus of traditional anthropology has been on the “simple and primitive” tribal societies that still exist. The question of how anthropology can carry on to study complex civilizations, especially those with a long history like Chinese civilization, has gained attention due to the discipline’s development and expansion. Anthropologists around the world have developed several significant research methods in the study of complex societies in response to this challenge. Taking anthropology research in China as an example, these methods include not only the summary and improvement of Western anthropological methods applied by Chinese scholars to Chinese practice but also methodological innovations based on traditional Chinese research paradigms and explorations of anthropological fieldwork methods in the digital age. In China, the latest advancements in anthropological methods for studying complex societies can be seen in historical anthropology, multi-sited ethnography, internet anthropology, and Rapid Anthropological Assessment. This effectively responds to many doubts about whether anthropological fieldwork methods are capable of studying complex societies and spurred anthropology’s reciprocal adaptation to new fields of study and contemporary needs. In this sense, anthropological research on complex societies is entirely possible, feasible, and necessary.

The article, based on an analysis of materials from the case of «Artamonov’s organization», reconstructs a generalized social portrait of residents of the Omsk region who were subjected to massive political repression during the years of the Great Terror for belonging to the command staff of the White Army during the Civil War. The theoretical basis of the study is a combination of anthropological approach, prosopographical, comparative-historical, historical-genetic and statistical methods. The purpose of the work is to analyze, in the context of the historical conditions of the Omsk region, the typical social characteristics of representatives of the former officers who became victims of mass political repression during the years of the Great Terror. In conclusion, the information potential of historical sources is assessed and further prospects for developing the topic of political mass repressions against former White Guards are outlined.

The article describes about little-known pages in the life of one of the key military and political leaders of the Civil War in Turkmenistan, Junaid Khan — Kurbanmamed serdar (1862–1938). The historiography of the issue is criticized. Based on unpublished sources from the founds of state and departmental archives, the details of the biography of this figure related to his participation in the fratricidal confrontation are clarified. The theoretical basis of the study is a combination of military anthropology, problematic and comparative historical methods. Summing up, the author assesses the personality of Junaid Khan against the backdrop of the controversial era in which this military and political figure lived.

This article celebrates Katherine Verdery's impact on the discipline of cultural anthropology through an exploration of the intersection of suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination in ethnographic research, drawing on Verdery's experiences during her decades of fieldwork in Romania. Verdery's encounters with state surveillance, exemplified by her analysis of her Securitate secret police file, challenge conventional notions of ethnography and simultaneously inflect the archival turn within cultural anthropology. I argue that in Verdery's writing, suspicion is a form of empathy and a code that builds an algorithmic architecture through which force is exerted—both in the institutions which operationalize intelligence files and in the habitus of those who become informants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article delves into the monographic study by Professor A.G. Emanov of the University of Tyumen. It represents an attempt to culturally and anthropologically explore the sphere of economic relations in the Old World during the 13th–15th centuries, centered around an in-depth examination of the history of one of the largest trade and craft hubs of that era – the Crimean city of Caffa (modern-day Feodosia). The study draws upon a broad spectrum of written and material sources. The author meticulously analyzed private legal documents, both public and private records in various languages such as Latin, Middle Greek, folk Romance, Germanic, Slavic, as well as other European and Oriental languages, along with collections of numismatic artifacts. The author also compiled a topography detailing the distribution of treasures and individual finds of Caffa’s coins in Eastern Europe.The primary research hypothesis is a departure from the conventional West-East dichotomy, proposing instead the coexistence of the North and the South as central to historical processes. The author’s distinctive style is marked by a penchant for metaphors and etymological exercises. He symbolizes the North as the North Star and the South as the Midday Sun, aligning with how medieval people, especially merchants and sailors, referred to them. To characterize trade and cultural exchange between the North and the South, the author employs the unique term “meridional communication.” The book’s most distingui­shing feature lies in the author’s reconstruction of how medieval Europeans perceived goods exported from Caffa. This perception is explored in the context of urban culture, including the representation of Siberian furs in European heraldry. Additionally, the author reconstructs the mindset of businesspeople from that era. His conclusions suggest that their motives were not purely driven by greed but rather guided by ethos – a behavioral model characterized by a set of value orientations and virtues, encompassing elements such as charity and compassion for the less fortunate and vulnerable.

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This article analyzes the history of the natural rubber industry in the Brazilian Amazon, including the colonialist involvement of the British Empire and the industrial heritage of rubber. It provides an overview of the natural rubber species, tapping and extraction systems, and the establishment of rubber plantations that entangled and modernized the world. The present article considers the role of actants and entanglements between human and non-human agencies in the forest as coproducers of knowledge and resistance. In conclusion, the wide variety of works and approaches on the archaeology of rubber and its industrial heritage is presented and offers perspectives for new debates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the discussion between A. Gurevich and L. Batkin, who made a significant contribution to the development of “non-Soviet” medieval studies. The purpose of the study is to determine the characteristic features of the controversy between A. Gurevich and L. Batkin and its significance in the process of transformation of the epistemological field of Russian historical science. The principles of intellectual history constitute the theoretical foundation of the article. The study was carried out on the basis of comparative historical and historical genetic methods. The present work analyzes the views of A. Gurevich and L. Batkin on a number of methodological issues that were at the center of the debate between the scholars. The author concludes that the dispute under consideration raised questions about the cultural and social essence of the individual, about the implementation by the individual of his functions within social structures, and about the causes and mechanisms for changing cultural values and dominants. The interpretation of the concept of personality determined the choice of approach to the study of society. While for A. Gurevich, the personality is a product of the socio-cultural system of a particular era and the peculiarity of the personality lies in the original combination of common features of culture, L. Batkin views the personality as an individual who, being guided by general norms and regulations, lets them go through his consciousness and as if generates norms and values again. According to L. Batkin, “the conscious personality” is the beginning of overcoming stereotypes and matrices of social consciousness. In this regard, the approach of A. Gurevich was aimed at reconstructing social stereotypes and matrices that determined people’s behavior. L. Batkin analyzed outstanding literary works, which, according to the scholar, reveal change and transformation in the culture under study. A number of points made by L. Batkin during the polemic were perceived and interpreted by Yu. Bessmertnyi, A. Yurganov, A. Karavashkin, and I. Danilevskii and influenced the formation of their research agenda. The scholars agreed that medieval culture should be studied proceeding from the peculiarities of the development of the culture itself; attention should be paid to understanding the specifics of the language of culture, features of thinking and self-expression of the era under study; unique features of culture should be taken into account; it is required to use the principles of hermeneutics as a methodological basis for the interpretation of written sources.

This essay historicizes the concept of nature in French anarchist pedagogy around 1900. I argue that anarchist cosmology was not dualist in the sense that it did not neatly separate the natural from the cultural or social. Nature was rather understood as an ever-evolving realm that encompassed nonhuman and human entities. This example should encourage historical scholarship to look more deeply into what anthropologists sometimes call “naturalist ontology”. Instead of conceiving it as a fixed worldview, we should investigate its genealogy, transformations, and contestations.

The article deals with the problems of applying the historical-anthropological and microhistorical approaches on the example of the exploits of signalmen in the Battle of Stalingrad. This article is a continuation of the author’s research. In the current study, the question of this type of achievement was considered in more detail. Incorrect variants in the historiography of dating or geographical indications of the places of heroic deeds of signalmen were identified and corrected. Based onthese studies,the “mainstream”microhistorical and historical-anthropological approaches have been criticized. It was found that these areas are poorly developed in terms of methodology, their use has limits. The approaches themselves are not only very limited, but also cannot be applied as independent types of research. Once again, the relevance of a thorough development of the methodology of historical research in the modern period was emphasized.

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This paper examines the birth of the exploitative sockenlappssystemet (the 'Parish Lapp' system) in central Sweden during the early eighteenth century. Based on a foundation of control and eviction instituted in earlier laws, the 1720s saw a forceful rise in royal concern over the existence of nomadic Sámi in central Sweden. His Majesty King Fredrik I specifically expressed fear of damage to the resources of the forests through Sámi hunting, especially bird hunting. The period between 1720 and 1730 saw King Fredrik corresponding with the Royal Council, the county governors, and some groups of Sámi agents. The council sought to evict the Sámi and move them or have them move to the lappmarker. The Sámi agents claimed birth right and asserted that Sámi in central Sweden had no relationship to either the land or the Sámi in the northern part of the realm. This paper uses a historical anthropological perspective, based on a wide set of sources, including historical archaeology, history, and ethnography, in order to paint a bigger picture of the conflicted situation that led to the founding of the unique system of forced indenture: the so-called Parish Lapp system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the relationship between music, sound, writing, and power in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It focuses on a description of a musical gathering at the court of Murad IV (r. 1623-40) in the Seyahatnâme (Book of travels), written by the courtier and musician Evliya Çelebi (1611-ca. 1685). The article draws on literature from historical anthropology, sound studies, and Ottoman cultural history to produce a multilayered reading that underscores the importance of music and other sonic practices in Ottoman courtly culture. Shifting between micro and macro perspectives, the article discusses the role of ceremonial music, Qur'anic recitation, the call to prayer, and patronage networks in the projection of imperial power. It then discusses the social implications of debates about the religious permissibility of music and the distinction between elites and commoners. Elite music-making is situated within a larger context of kin relations, patronage networks, and intimate male companionship. Themes of sensual pleasure, intoxication, and eroticism are discussed as poetic and philosophical tropes that are embodied in the intersubjective space of musical performance. Finally, the article highlights the role of textual practices in the construction of Ottoman music as a discursive formation. A situating of Evliya's writing practices within the larger textual archive of Ottoman music raises methodological and epistemological questions about the relationship between aural experience and inscription, and about notions of historiographic and ethnographic truth. These questions are connected to current disciplinary debates about writing, sound, and power, particularly in the context of empire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the research method of historical anthropology, through the interpretation of historical information in existing fortress building inscriptions, this study conducts an in-depth analysis of the historical process of the construction of Miyangbu in Dangjia Village and Fengyizhai in Xiyuan Village in Hancheng area, and discusses the causes of "village with detached fortress" in Hancheng. Breaking away from the usual paradigm of architectural material spatial types, and through sorting out clan relationships and settling property rights, we find that the two forts are the product of joint ventures after class differentiation within the family. The fortress uses lanes as the main morphological control elements and "narrow courtyards" as the modular units for dividing the land. Ceremonial spaces such as ancestral halls are not very important and are isomorphic with ordinary settlements. Then, through comparison with the settlements in South China, it reveals the occurrence and expansion logic of the "weak clans" or "incomplete clans" of the local settlements in Guanzhong. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than three decades of theories critical of cultural colonialism have given rise to many voices calling for a different way of interpreting, thinking, and expressing the world. In recent decades, the social sciences and humanities have played a central role in the debate on the epistemological and intellectual implications of Western colonial domination over territories in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The critique of Eurocentrism in the social sciences encompasses currents such as postcolonial critique, subaltern studies, decolonial theory, Afro-American Marxism, Chicano and border feminism, indigenous thought, and epistemologies of the South. The emergence of these theories that are critical of Eurocentrism has brought about a process of profound theoretical renewal in the social sciences that has called into question Eurocentric legacies, colonial projects, and the hegemony of Westernized universities. Historiographic production has remained, to a certain extent, on the margins of this theoretical renewal undergone by the humanities and social sciences. This article recapitulates the fundamental contributions of theories critical of Eurocentrism to the formation of a new historiography that overcomes the legacies of Eurocentric and colonial knowledge. We review the fundamental contributions of postcolonial studies, subaltern history, and decolonial theory to the interpretation of the past in order to think about the formulation of a new theory of history and a new non-Eurocentric historiography. We propose that this should critically examine the implications of the colonial legacy in how historiography itself and the rest of the social sciences and humanities conceive the past.

This publication reconstructs the biography of N. M. Terekhova (Belonogova) political figure of Omsk social-democratic, a teacher, an active participant in the socio-political movement in Western Siberia. Despite the very significant contribution to the activities of the RSDLP, the biography of this revolutionary is not reflected in historiography, her name was not included in the official Soviet historiography, although many associates, and sometimes opponents in their memoirs mentioned it, even after several decades. In the official press about it, they wrote quite rarely. The basis for the publication is a set of published and unpublished memories, memoirs and materials of the paperwork of the gendarmerie identified in the funds of the historical archive of the Omsk region. According to the results of a study built on a combination of an anthropological approach and the biographical method, the author emphasizes the particular relevance and importance of genealogical practices in the study of regional socio-political history.

During the archaeological research conducted in 2019 under the project “The Former Headquarters of the Gestapo and the Communist Provincial Office of Public Security in Anstadt Avenue in Łódź. Interdisciplinary Site Research” under the supervision of Dr Olgierd Ławrynowicz, an object filled with products on a paper base and bookbinding materials was found in one of the excavations. This paper attempts to clarify the chronology of paper products and to identify their type (typescripts, prints of monetary value, books, bookbinding materials, arrangement drawings, other paper products) and the material used. The visible content was identified using basic research methods and digital photographic documentation of it was made to preserve it.

Many parts of the world have seen a rise in companionate marriage, even though it is often imbued with ambivalences and anxieties, especially for women. Drawing on a series of mass-mediated scandals and on long-term fieldwork in the predominantly Muslim nation of Malaysia, this essay engages these dynamics, focusing on late-modern transformations in kinship and social relations and contested discourses of masculinity alleging that men are responsible for most ethical breaches and criminality. One of my two overarching goals is to demonstrate the value of providing a unified, historically informed analysis of kinship and gender that deals substantively with both normativity and transgression. The other is to analyze some of the diverse, locally specific ways that globally widespread sociohistorical trends involving the "loosening of constraints" and "increased choices" go hand in hand with new or more pronounced regimes of surveillance, discipline, and control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay historicizes the concept of nature in French anarchist pedagogy around 1900. I argue that anarchist cosmology was not dualist in the sense that it did not neatly separate the natural from the cultural or social. Nature was rather understood as an ever-evolving realm that encompassed nonhuman and human entities. This example should encourage historical scholarship to look more deeply into what anthropologists sometimes call "naturalist ontology". Instead of conceiving it as a fixed worldview, we should investigate its genealogy, transformations, and contestations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than three decades of theories critical of cultural colonialism have given rise to many voices calling for a different way of interpreting, thinking, and expressing the world. In recent decades, the social sciences and humanities have played a central role in the debate on the epistemological and intellectual implications of Western colonial domination over territories in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The critique of Eurocentrism in the social sciences encompasses currents such as postcolonial critique, subaltern studies, decolonial theory, Afro-American Marxism, Chicano and border feminism, indigenous thought, and epistemologies of the South. The emergence of these theories that are critical of Eurocentrism has brought about a process of profound theoretical renewal in the social sciences that has called into question Eurocentric legacies, colonial projects, and the hegemony of Westernized universities. Historiographic production has remained, to a certain extent, on the margins of this theoretical renewal undergone by the humanities and social sciences. This article recapitulates the fundamental contributions of theories critical of Eurocentrism to the formation of a new historiography that overcomes the legacies of Eurocentric and colonial knowledge. We review the fundamental contributions of postcolonial studies, subaltern history, and decolonial theory to the interpretation of the past in order to think about the formulation of a new theory of history and a new non-Eurocentric historiography. We propose that this should critically examine the implications of the colonial legacy in how historiography itself and the rest of the social sciences and humanities conceive the past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]