| Titre | Du texte au prétexte. La monographie dans le domaine européen | |
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| Auteur | Françoise Zonabend | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 97-98, 1985 L'ethnographie / Grèce | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Le texte ethnographique |
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| Page | 33-38 | |
| Résumé anglais |
From Text to Pretext : About Monographs in the European Field.
Monographs characterize the output of ethnographic articles about modern societies. When they are handled by «new» ethnologists, they are transformed. Monographs used to ' cover vast territories and set a rigid frame of observation. Nowadays they concentrate upon a tiny field and are unique, singular, personal, qualities that have exposed them to criticism. It is said, for instance, that they are not representative. To deal with this criticism, the researcher must be concerned with totalization at the levels of observation and of analysis. However there are other epistemological problems to which little thought has been given. How is an oral discourse received and transmitted whenever it is produced in a literate society and it serves to write another text ? How can an ethnologist avoid the dual risk that he runs whenever he works in his own society: to talk about himself or to lose his self in a discussion about the Other ? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1985_num_97_1_3057 |
