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AbstractThrough a reflexive analysis of her « fieldwork » in Palestine, the author develops an epistemological reflection on the nature of anthropological « fields ». She particularly tackles the place of subjectivity in the construction of the object and its restitution. In this case, subjectivity manifested itself in the political implication of the anthropologist. Indeed, the access condition to such a politicized issue as the Palestinian memory entails an explicit stand on the Israeli-Arab conflict. Such an implication – requested by the Palestinian actors and inferred by the researcher's values – has important consequences on the production of scientific knowledge. It is accordingly necessary to clarify it in order to allow a dialogue between different perspectives and thus enrich the comprehension of complex and moving social realities.
Keywords: Pirinoli, Palestine, terrain, implication, anthropologie réflexive, épistémologie, conflit, subjectivité, Pirinoli, Palestine, fieldwork, implication, reflexive anthropology, epistemology, conflict, subjectivity, Pirinoli, Palestina, campo, implicación, antropología reflexiva, epistemología, conflicto, subjetividad
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This article concerns the trajectory followed by the Aubrac Collection, an assemblage of agricultural implements gathered in France in 1964 and now preserved at the Anthropology Department at the Université de Montréal. The collection exists primarily as a testimony to country life in the Aubrac region, but the author argues that it is also an indicator of the intellectual and academic contexts that gave rise to its creation and preservation. Using a biographically centred methodology, he proposes that in order to truly understand an object, it is necessary to study the institutions and individuals responsible for its creation. This approach sheds light on how the social relationships behind the object are ultimately involved in shaping it.
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AbstractThe Choice between Uttering the Unutterable and Decomposing What has been UtteredIntended as an introduction of Victor Turner to French-speaking readers, this article compares him to Lévi-Strauss, underlining not only the differences between the two approaches but also the resemblances. The most important and enduring concepts proposed by Turner were those of < ritual symbol ", and " ritual drama ", apt to produce c catharsis " when efficacious. But this article argues that such catharsis is not necessarily religious; it may equally well be viewed as a response to the production of artwork by imaginative performers. This point is illustrated from Turner's Chihamba. The White Spirit, where Turner's aesthetics yields far more striking insights than his c comparative sym-bology ". In this respect. Turner's approach is compared, in the final sections of the paper, to the aesthetics of Artaud and Barthes.
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Back in 1985, the author published a book entitled Échanges, développement et hiérarchies dans le Bamenda précolonial – Cameroun. Fifteen years later, it appeared that this book was walking on its head. To pastiche Marx, it had to be put back on its feet. The author proposes a narrative of this overturn. This article aims at analyzing a given African field research situation – that of the Cameroon Grassfields. It shows how it has yielded a series of successive discourses. Researches in many different academic disciplines over the last forty years have caused a number of shifts in anthropological paradigms, integrating more and more interdisciplinary intakes.
Keywords: Warnier, Cameroun, culture matérielle, Grassfields, pluridisciplinarité, praxéologe, réseaux régionaux, royauté, Warnier, Cameroon, Grassfields, Interdisciplinarity, Kingship, Material Culture, Praxeology, Regional Networks, Warnier, Camerún, cultura material, Grassfields, pluridisciplinariedad, praxeólogo, red regional, realeza
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For several years now, Indigenous peoples and many researchers have been rejecting a colonial conception of anthropology that made the non-indigenous specialist the only voice authorised to interpret the words of his indigenous interlocutors, who were reduced to the status of 'informants', and expropriated their knowledge from them. In our long-term research with the Maseual-Nahuas of the Sierra Nororiental de Puebla, Mexico, we have been trying since 1984 to practise a different kind of anthropology, based on a dialogue of knowledge (Pérez Ruíz and Argueta Vilamar 2019). The result has been a profound change in the power relations between the anthropologist and the indigenous co-researchers of the Taller de Tradición Oral Totamachilis. Both the fieldwork and the interpretation of the data and the writing of that typical product of ethnography, the anthropological monograph, have been transformed as a result. Our research, the themes of which were determined in dialogue with the Taller, has covered historical tradition, flora and fauna, toponymy, traditional medicine and shamanism over almost forty years. As for publications, priority has been given to bilingual texts (in Maseualtajtol and Spanish), distributed at low cost in the region.
Keywords: Mexique, Maseual-nahuas, ethnographie, dialogue des savoirs, Mexico, Maseual-nahuas, ethnography, dialogue of knowledge