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One wonders why Jacques Le Goff has used the term anthropology instead of ethnology or ethno-history which could equally reflect his intellectual approach. If we consider the political dimension of the original gesture in historical anthropology, we see that it is an effort to give a history to the subjects who were considered without history. As for Levi Strauss for historians, anthropology was involved in the effort of decolonization and of integrating it in social sciences.