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The field of the enterprise federates multiple approaches and constitutes a place of methodological innovation for anthropology. It is invested by anthropologists from different backgrounds, whether they work as practitioners or in the academic world. However, ethnography as a method of data collection can frighten entrepreneurs and sponsors of a study, because the characteristics of anthropological research are based on temporal regimes that clash with those of the enterprise. In addition to the very duration of an investigation according to the discipline's canons, the uncertainty as to the outcome of a fieldwork process and the type of deliverable that can be proposed at the end of an intervention constitute a double obstacle to the meeting between these two worlds. The purpose of this article is to question the role of serendipity, understood here as resulting from a temporality characterized by uncertainty, in the field of corporate anthropology. After a brief state-of-the-art on the use and recourse to serendipity in anthropology, we shift the focus to the field of business. Through ethnographic examples, mainly from the field of design, we analyze the role of serendipity in business in the context of applied and fundamental anthropology, both as a risk and as a lever to enhance the value of an anthropological intervention. This positive valence given to uncertainty and therefore to serendipity allows us to reinforce the link between an academic anthropology and an operational anthropology in the field of business by privileging the specific approach of ethnography.
Keywords: Sérendipité, temporalité, incertitude, entreprise, anthropologie, ethnographie, Serendipity, Temporality, Uncertainty, Enterprise, Anthropology, Ethnography, Design
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AbstractThe “anthropological” disciplines of ethnography and folklore have historically been seen in Romania as being part of the “national ethnologies,” and even as “national sciences” in the service of the nation. In keeping with this view, it was the Peasant rather than the Primitive that was the subject of study. With the exception of a brief internationalist period, this approach was never called into question by the communist regime, which was content to take advantage of it. Nor was it subjected to critical analysis after the fall of communism, simply being incorporated into a “long-term view” that is an issue in itself.For all intents and purposes, anthropology arrived in Romania with the fall of communism, spreading the good word of a noble Western discipline that was unsullied by local nationalism and communism and that had no intention of becoming mixed up with these somewhat undesirable academic practices. Folklorists and anthropologists, who initially kept their distance from each other, eventually became entirely focused on their separate fields, the end result being an almost complete rupture in communication. Knowledge about “real Romanian society” was likewise fractured, and came to serve as a tool in power struggles.This article looks at the future possibilities for the discipline (disciplines?) and its relationship with Romanian society in a context where the national ethnology seems to have reached its end, where European integration has legislated the “death of the Peasant,” and where the Western discipline of anthropology has not yet been able to adopt a clear position on these two not-yet-entirely-accepted deaths.
Keywords: Mihǎilescu, folklore, anthropologie, histoire, paysan, primitif, pouvoir, Roumanie, Mihǎilescu, folklore, anthropology, history, peasant, primitive, power, Romania, Mihǎilescu, folclore, antropología, historia, campesino, primitivo, poder, Rumania
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Keywords: MÉDECINE TRADITIONNELLE AFRICAINE, TRADIPRATICIENS, REVALORISATION, BIOCHIMIE, RECHERCHE QUALITATIVE