Être ethnologue au Yunnan
In China, a country marked by deep socioeconomic upheavals over the past three decades, an extremely diversified, captivating and complex field of study offers itself for analysis. Here I look at my own analytical development, in light of the changes I have been observing since 1998, linked to Yunna...
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| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Ateliers d'Anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/17486 |
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| Summary: | In China, a country marked by deep socioeconomic upheavals over the past three decades, an extremely diversified, captivating and complex field of study offers itself for analysis. Here I look at my own analytical development, in light of the changes I have been observing since 1998, linked to Yunnan province in particular. I begin by setting the scene of the main metamorphoses experienced by a local minority: the Sani branch of the Yi nationality, located in the Stone Forest. Then I discuss—implicitly at first, then more centrally—ethnographic practice and conceptualisation in anthropology. The ethnologist’s intellectual journey is based on relations established with their informants, relations that also undergo change, influenced by the fieldwork or mirroring it, and conditioning the ethnologist’s understanding of the thought logic at play in what they observe. Thus I examine the ethnographic relationship “in motion” as a condition of the possibility of anthropology, and the ambiguities that this kind of “connection” implies. I also reflect on the “meaning” that emerges from observation in light of social changes: its understanding and the decentring it imposes. |
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| ISSN: | 2117-3869 |