De l’anthropologie appliquée à l’anthropologue impliqué

Feeling trapped by the classical and consequently ethnocentric dichotomy between theory and practice, contemporary anthropologists have hurried downstream seeking at once to personalize their discipline (“no anthropology without autobiography”) and render it more relevant to our common future (hence...

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Main Author: Mike Singleton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2008-12-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/350
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Summary:Feeling trapped by the classical and consequently ethnocentric dichotomy between theory and practice, contemporary anthropologists have hurried downstream seeking at once to personalize their discipline (“no anthropology without autobiography”) and render it more relevant to our common future (hence an “applied anthropology”). But upstream, onto-epistemologically, there where several modern philosophers find themselves with such notions as the real being relational (Marion), encounter and recognition (Ricoeur) or the self as replying to the Other (Levinas), it could be that whether he or she wills it or not, an anthropologist is implicated from the outset.
ISSN:1782-1592
2033-7485