Expériences des mondes spirituels et savoirs en Birmanie : la place de l’ethnographe
Moussons September 23, 2019 Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière 1 citation
Transforming observed spiritual practices into ethnographic knowledge is deeply problematic because such experiences resist direct observation. Drawing on fieldwork in Burma involving spirit possession and esoteric Buddhism, the author argues that the ethnographer is inevitably caught in the observed situation. To construct knowledge about these experiences, one must analyze the interactions between the ethnographer and the people being studied, following Jeanne Favret-Saada's approach.