Effets de terrain.

What kind of knowledge do we produce in the social sciences ? The problem is constantly discussed, mostly from a review of the literature (after all stages of academic refining) more than by sharing what is learned from the survey. However, it can be reconsidered not as a technical stage of collection, but as an open process that begins well before and continues well after the phase described in theses and articles as the space-time reserved for the study area. [...]

Ethnologues et touristes au papier calque.

Quelques effets de terrain en milieu touristique.

Based on a considerable fieldwork experience in Mali, this paper aims to analyze the ethnologist's responsibilities towards various actors taking part in tourism encounters. From similarities between anthropologists and tourists, I intend to show that relationships between researchers, local communities, guides and tourists are components of the ethnographic data. Tourism constitutes therefore an ethnographic field that needs a continous practice of reflexivity. Furthermore, because he is a tourist in his own way, because the mediators of tourism encounters tend [...]

La force de l’impact.

Paradigme théorique et réalités de terrain.

  Même si une série de publications récentes (notamment plusieurs numéros spéciaux de revues) témoignent d’une progressive légitimité du sujet, la question du tourisme a connu dans les sciences humaines françaises un démarrage difficile. Sans en retracer l’historique, je voudrais m’attarder sur l’un des facteurs explicatifs de cet essor laborieux, que ce soit en sociologie [...]