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Faced with the diversity and wealth of his observations, the anthropologist runs two opposite risks : either to reduce their content to its textual aspect, or to be overflowed by his recordings.
INTRODUCTION
FOREIGN LOOK, INNER LOOK
1 Ethnological perception
2 Much more than texts
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Interpretation and implication

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A research situation
TECHNIQUES, EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGES
TERRITORY AND MEANING OF THE PLACE
KINSHIP AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION
CUSTOM, CEREMONIAL AND RITE
TALE, LEGEND, ART OF NARRATION
EPIC, DEPHTS OF HISTORY
WHAT IS CALLED VAMPIRE
IMAGINE AND THINK THE NEXT WORLD
Like men from their side, middle-aged women gather at sunday dance. Sirbi, Rumania, 1972.
 
In the company of my young Rumanian colleagues I would therefore proceed to my observations, drawings, tape recordings and photographs, so as to seize in their various perspectives the performances of the multiple agents taking part in the wedding. I thus tried to complement each observation or recording of any action, speech or clamour with the comments delivered by the actors, speakers or singers, on the spot or afterwards , before proceeding to its exegesis.  next
    J.C. : Le Feu Vivant, la parenté et ses rituels dans les Carpates, Paris, PUF, 1994, pp. 18-19
   
 
 
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