%0 Journal Article
%T Anthropologue prends garde ! Trois assignations p¨¦rilleuses sur trois terrains andins
%A Antoinette Molini¨¦
%J Ateliers du LESC
%D 2009
%I 
%R 10.4000/ateliers.8215
%X Anthropologue prends garde ! Trois assignations p¨¦rilleuses sur trois terrains andins. Le r le assign¨¦ ¨¤ l¡¯ethnologue par la soci¨¦t¨¦ d¡¯accueil peut lui ¨ºtre r¨¦v¨¦l¨¦ non pas lors d¡¯une exp¨¦rience unique de type initiatique mais ¨¤ travers plusieurs ¨¦v¨¦nements qui ont ¨¦t¨¦ pour lui autant d¡¯occasions d¡¯entrevoir chez ses h tes plusieurs repr¨¦sentations de sa personne. Celles-ci se superposent, se contredisent, et finalement se compl¨¨tent les unes les autres, informant ainsi la repr¨¦sentation indig¨¨ne de soi et de l¡¯¨¦tranger. Ces assignations ont valeur d¡¯exp¨¦rimentation. En effet, l¡¯ethnographe entrevoit grace ¨¤ elles les structures fondamentales de la soci¨¦t¨¦ qu¡¯il vient ¨¦tudier. Celles-ci peuvent lui sugg¨¦rer les premi¨¨res directions de son enqu¨ºte.Trois ¨¦v¨¦nements ont ainsi marqu¨¦ ma relation au terrain andin et pr¨¦sent¨¦ trois types d¡¯assignation. Dans le r le de pr¨¦dateur, j¡¯ai entrevu la perception indig¨¨ne de soi comme proie. Dans le r le de sacrifiant, j¡¯ai saisi l¡¯importance du circuit sacrificiel pour les Andins. Dans le r le de proie, j¡¯ai compris que le lien pr¨¦dateur/proie avait tendance ¨¤ la sym¨¦trie et que les fronti¨¨res entre les   Indiens traditionnels   et les n¨¦o-Indiens ¨¦taient troubles. Anthropologists beware! Three risky roles assigned to me in Andean enquiries. The role that a host society assigns to an ethnographer can be revealed not so much through a unique initiation, but through a sequence of experiences that allow him to grasp his hosts¡¯ perceptions. These are superimposed, contradictory, and complete each other, leading to an indigenous picture of the self and of the stranger. These representations may be regarded as experimental observations. Indeed, the ethnographer may perceive in this manner some of the fundamental structures of the society that he wishes to study. These can lead him to define the initial orientation of his enquiries. Three separate events, which correspond to three different representations of my role by my hosts, left a deep imprint on my relationship with the Andes. When I was cast in the role of a predator, I grasped the self-perception of the indigenous as preys. When I was perceived as conducting a sacrifice, I became aware of the importance of the sacrificial circuit for the people of the Andes. Finally, when I found myself in the role of a prey, I understood the symmetrical relationship between predators and preys, and realized how the frontiers between ¡°traditional Indians¡± and ¡°neo-Indians¡± were hazy.
%K assignment
%K predator
%K prey
%K sacrificer
%K assignation
%K pr¨¦dateur
%K proie
%K sacrifiant
%K Andes
%U http://ateliers.revues.org/8215