Ethnographic Life: Method for an Ex Post Facto Anthropology

Igor José de Renó Machado

doi:10.3138/anth.2018-0071.r2

Auteurs-es

Igor José de Renó Machado Social Anthropology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.3138/anth.2018-0071.r2

Mots-clés :

Ethnographie, temps, espace, biographie, enquête de terrain, auto-ethnographie

Résumé

Toute ethnographie a un début et une fin, laquelle est décidée plus ou moins arbitrairement par l'anthropologue. De manière générale, le début est à la fois temporel et spatial. À l’heure actuelle, les limites spatiales sont plus floues, mais les limites temporelles demeurent nettes. Cet article propose une réflexion sur la manière dont se constitue le savoir anthropologique lorsque le champ est dépourvu de telles limites. Et si tout moment de nos expériences pouvait être considéré comme un moment de l’enquête de terrain « ex post facto » ? Peut-on réaliser une ethnographie sans limites ? Quelles méthodes devrait-on articuler pour construire un savoir qui ne dissocie pas la vie de l’ethnographie ? Si l’ethnographie est perçue comme une expérience de vie, alors pourquoi la vie est-elle rarement considérée comme une expérience ethnographique ? Et qu’en serait-il si l’on considérait que la vie constitue bel et bien une expérience ethnographique ? Cet article traite du savoir anthropologique sans limites et aborde la mémoire comme ressource méthodologique.

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