Summary

New forms of writing, shared sciences, art-science hybridisations, creation-research… Anthropology has not escaped this wave of experiments crossing all of the human and social sciences, pushing us to research differently, to experiment, to find new ways of reporting the results of our investigations, and to subsequently revive our fieldwork. This double issue of the journal Ateliers d’anthropologie brings together contributions by LESC researchers and their collaborators, who respond to these expectations by filming, listening, drawing, dancing, exhibiting, coding, performing, fictionalising, weighing, mapping, speculating… by creating, in various ways. What we found most interesting about these ways of doing things was not so much their results, but rather their process, leading from conception (of an apparatus, object, event, etc.) to usage. It was through this prism that we received the different contributions to this issue, and it is this prism that led us to conceive of those various experiments as “plastic anthropologies”: ways of creating forms, forms that simultaneously transform the researcher, the fieldwork, and the methods.

Table of contents

Baptiste Buob, Sarah Carton de Grammont, Francesca Cozzolino et Carolina Kobelinsky – Anthropologies plastiques : de l’art de machiner des machins, ou des formes qui transforment / Plastic anthropologies: The art of concocting contraptions, or forms that transform

Catherine Beaugrand et Albert Piette – Épistémologie sculpturale, extraction et volume d’être / Sculptural epistemology, extraction, and volume of being

Sarah Benabou et David Picherit – Entendre les mouches voler : ce qu’une approche sonore fait à l’anthropologie politique de l’environnement / Hearing flies fly: What a sound-based approach does to the political anthropology of the environment

Helma Korzybska – Le « brouilloscope », un nuancier pour éclairer les troubles de la perception / The “bluroscope”, a colour chart to shed light on perceptual disorders

Fabienne Wateau – Créer des formes, inventer des faires : retour sur quelques écritures anthropologiques / Creating forms, inventing ways of doing: a look back at a few anthropological writings

Pierre Depardieu – Pour une méthode diaristique en anthropologie / Towards a diaristic method in anthropology

Giulia Gaddi – Et si nous pouvions interviewer le Boson de Higgs ? Un exercice d’écriture ethnographique / What if we could interview the Higgs boson? An ethnographic writing exercise

Sarah Carton de Grammont – Le zbeul / The shambles

Gabriel Gatti et Carolina Kobelinsky – Des choses étranges : fragments d’une conversation hétérotopologique / Strange things: Fragments of a heterotopological conversation

Monica Heintz – Le concept de less good idea face aux patrimoines controversés / The concept of the less good idea in the face of controversial heritage

Virginie Milliot et Léna Paté – Inventer des « dispositifs génératifs » à la croisée de l’ethnographie et du design / Inventing “generative apparatuses” combining ethnography and design

Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin et Kristina Solomoukha – Protocole d’errance d’une forme : une narration audiovisuelle issue d’une recherche autour de l’iconographie zapatiste / Wandering protocol of a form: An audio-visual narrative stemming from research into Zapatista iconography

Pierre Thévenin, Emmanuel Ducourneau et Anthony Stavrianakis – La langue, matière à machines

Emmanuel Grimaud – Dispositifs à variables inconnues : une réponse anthropologique au programme plastique inachevé de la modernité

Elena Bertuzzi – Au cœur du debaa : valorisation de données ethnographiques par une installation audiovisuelle immersive

Marie Mazzella di Bosco – Remettre en acte des extraits d’ethnographie : récit et potentiel heuristique d’une expérimentation anthropologique dansée / Re-enacting ethnographic extracts: Story and heuristic potential of a danced anthropological experiment