Henri Hubert et l’archéologie de l’Asie du Sud-Est. Un moment de formation personnelle et d’échanges intellectuels

Abstract

Henri Hubert became attracted to Far Eastern archaeology and anthropology early in his carrier. In this connection, he soon engaged in an intellectual and friendly relationship with Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, the Head of the Museum of Natural History in Florence (Italy). They exchanged data and objects, coming particularly from Indonesia and Japan, at a time when so few European specialists paid attention to the material culture of ancient Asian people. This work relies on unpublished archives to disclose Hubert’s interest in Asian archaeological cultures, at a time when he participated in the Congress of Orientalists at Hanoi, and prepared the special room devoted to comparative archaeology at the Museum of National Archaeology.