The Visual Traces of an Ethnographic Investigation; or, How Do People Present Themselves in a Concrete Situation

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ID2162845
AutoresA Piette (0000-0003-2787-2557, North-West State Technical University, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume23
Fascículo3
Páginas186-199
Data de publicação2010-04-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949461003626331
OpenAlexW2003443941
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas2

This article describes the methodological work of retrieving the remnants of an ethnographic investigation of a festive ritual. Eliminated at first, the author shows how, thanks to the representations of outlines in photos, details have been retrieved so as to describe and analyze the styles of human presence seen in the slightest displacements in space. Rather than “ethnography,” the author is proposing the term “phenomenography” here to designate this study of the presence of people. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author thanks Paul Hockings for the translation and for his interest. Additional informationNotes on contributorsAlbert Piette ALBERT PIETTE is a professor at the University of Amiens, France, and a member of the Marcel Mauss Institute in Paris (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). His numerous books include Le Fait religieux. Une théorie de la religion ordinaire [Paris: Economica, 2003], L'Acte d'exister. Une phénoménographie de la présence [Marchienne-au-Pont: Socrate Editions Promarex, 2009], and Anthropologie existentiale [Paris: Pétra, 2009]

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