Décalages et rôles mal ajustés dans le travail ethnographique

Discrepancies and ill-adapted roles in ethnological work. This article revisits three episodes that occurred in Tunisia during doctoral research fieldwork on the cult of a Muslim saint. It focuses on the heuristic value of certain hiatuses that punctuate the experience of fieldwork, particularly tho...

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Main Author: Katia Boissevain
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2009-03-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/8204
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Summary:Discrepancies and ill-adapted roles in ethnological work. This article revisits three episodes that occurred in Tunisia during doctoral research fieldwork on the cult of a Muslim saint. It focuses on the heuristic value of certain hiatuses that punctuate the experience of fieldwork, particularly those involving the roles assumed, or not, by the ethnologist. By describing and putting into perspective these events, deliberately omitted from the final thesis, the author outlines a reflection on the idea of pleasure as an element favourable to ethnological interpretation.
ISSN:2117-3869