Learning to Embody the Radically Empirical: Performance, Ethnography, Sensorial Knowledge and the Art of Tabla Playing

Denise Nuttall

doi:10.3138/anth.2017-0009

Auteurs-es

Denise Nuttall Department of Anthropology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY; and Visiting Scholar, South Asia Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2017-0009

Mots-clés :

performance, ethnographie, incarnation (embodiment), empirisme radical, tabla

Résumé

L’anthropologie culturelle a longtemps privilégié le concept « d’expérience » par rapport à celui de « performance ». Quant aux ethnographes, ils ont longtemps privilégié le texte ethnographique et l’inscription par rapport aux actions du travail de terrain et aux « performances » de l’ethnographie. Bien que des progrès aient été réalisés vers un autre type d’anthropologie, une anthropologie incarnée, les recherches sur le corps et la performance sont restées cantonnées aux marges de la discipline. Sur la base de mon travail de terrain ethnographique auprès de joueurs de tabla de l’Inde du nord, ainsi que de mon expérience de professeure d’ethnomusicologie au sein d’une université américaine, je plaide pour un tournant vers ce que Sarah Pink (2009) nomme l’ethnographie sensorielle.

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