Toward the Reenchantment of Histories: Minoru Hokari and the Historiography of Trust
摘要
Minoru Hokari, when he died of lymphoma at the age of 32 in Melbourne, Australia in May 2004, left a remarkable book, finished just a few days before his death, titled Radical Oral History: Historical Practice of the Australian Aboriginal People, subsequently published by Tokyo’s Ochanomizu Bookstore in September 2004. Since then, this extraordinary work has made so much impact not only on the academic community concerned with historiography in general, but also on the wider Japanese readership for its radical urge for us to rethink the meaning of “historical practice,” i.e., what it means to do history and who is a historian.