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Abstract" What French Anthropologies Are Thinking... or Caution :What Are They Talking About, and How Are They Talking About It ? "Different anthropological approaches construct their objects - the "what" and "how" of their thinking and speaking - in divergent manners, according to unrelated rules and analytical frameworks. Limiting the analysis to French research (though such a move hardly reduces the multiplicity of approaches), the author broaches the non-commensurability of the reigning paradigms - of which marxism and structuralism remain the most important - and their current antipathy, as well as touching upon the problem of the various "knowledge Systems" that are used (Science or History?). Both of these trends make a unitary and axiomatic social theory difficult to imagine. Clarifying things will require thé development of intradisciplinary collaboration alongside of the customary confrontation, in addition to elaborating an "anthropology of anthropologies" and of their competing claims to truth.Key words : Jamard, anthropological discourses, knowledge Systems, epistemology, theory.
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AbstractABSTRACTBetween Politics of thé Living and Politics of Life. For an Anthropology of HealthFrom an anthropological perspective, health is something else and much more than the right side of disease. It is a relationship between physical and psychic dimensions, on the one hand, and the social and political world, on thé other hand ; a relationship which is not limited to a physiological or sensitive order, but is the expression of a historical construction. The object of an anthropology of health lies consequently in the bio-logics, i.e. the social logics which confronts the body and politics. After drawing a picture of medical anthopology through ils diversity and continuities, a characterization of the anthropology of health is proposed. Two orientations are explored : first, the processes of objectivation and subjectivation at work, with a special focus on the centrality of the concept of bio-legitimacy ; secondly, the ways through which globalization of a sanitary order imposes new meanings, with a particular mention of thé humanitarian rationality. In conclusion, a synthesis is proposed between politics of the living and politics of life.Key words : Fassin, anthropology of health, médical anthropology, biopolitics, subjectivation, globalization, humanitarian rationality
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AbstractABSTRACTIdentity, Social, Alterity : Expérience and Anthropological Theory within Caring PracticesThis article puts forward an analysis of chosen versions of the postmodemist and critical trends in anthropology. Its main concem is to shift from the construction-deconstruction paradigm, to the Other's gaze. The analysis of caring practices in différent contexts is used as a reference and inspiration to construct such a perspective ; those practices open up a vision of the relation to the Other, which the anthropology of tomorrow could elaborate new paradigmatic forms from, reconciliating science and humanism.Mots clés : Saillant, gender, caring, postmodemism. critical anthropology, Québec, Brazil