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The importance to have an acquaintance with the object of research gives to participant observation a prominence and a role that overstep disciplinary boundaries. However because of its specificity the validity of this method appears often limited and one day or another most anthropologists face similar questions : how to generalize an interpretation based on singular cases ? How to amplify the relevance of data produced by participant observation ? How to make empirical results accessible to other disciplines and facilitate their appropriation ? To avoid the critique of hyperparticularism, « one anthropologist, one village, one culture », this article suggests allying participant observation and comparison and develops some tools to facilitate this conciliation.
Keywords: Hilgers, observation participante, méthode, comparaison, interdisciplinarité, anthropologie, sciences sociales, Hilgers, Participant observation, Methods, Comparison, Interdisciplinarity, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Hilgers, observación participante, método, comparación, interdisciplinariedad, antropología, ciencias sociales
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The study I have led during several years on closed institutions (army and freemasonry, in particular) made me wonder about the place and the role which I had to play in these organizations in order to analyse them. Between a desire of objectivity on one hand, and a desire to penetrate from inside an environment closed in order to understand its representations and its practices on the other hand, I had to find the happy medium between too big a distance, and too small a proximity. Concluding my study, I noticed that some closed institutions do pay attention to these questions : the freemasonry, for instance, tries to set up cognitive and behavioural processes so that the follower can create a dialectic between the inside and the outside, the self and the other, the theory and the practice.
Keywords: Bryon-Portet, anthropologie, dedans/dehors, institutions fermées, armée, franc-maçonnerie, Bryon-Portet, Anthropology, Inside/Outside, Closed Institutions, Army, Freemasonry, Bryon-Portet, antropología, adentro/afuera, instituciones cerradas, ejército, masonería