@article{PAR00029746,
  title = {{A}nimals in anthropology : from objects of ethnography to ethnographic subjects ?},
  author = {{L}eblan, {V}incent and {R}oustan, {M}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}he paper addresses animals potential as ethnographic subjects. {T}his issue challenges anthropology and its perimeter, by renewing and diversifying the array of understandings of relationships between informants and ethnographers. {W}e first look at how anthropologists draw some boundaries based on how and to what extent they take the inner world of animals into consideration. {W}e then test the observations of ethologists who claim to produce ethnographic knowledge against anthropologists' reflexivity about their own observational practices. {W}e suggest the affirmation of "animal culture" is not a relevant condition to consider that ethnography can be practised with animals, since "cultural behaviours" in primatology remain interpreted within a biological frame. {T}hus, we explore two methodological pillars of fieldwork in relation to the possibility of an animal ethnography: the role of observation and the importance of communication with informants. {T}his raises questions about the links between anthropology and ethology, and between ethnocentrism and anthropocentrism.},
  keywords = {{A}nimals ; ethnography ; ethology ; epistemology ; anthropocentrism ; primatology ; ethnocentrism},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{E}thnography},
  volume = {[{E}arly access]},
  numero = {},
  pages = {},
  ISSN = {1466-1381},
  year = {2025},
  DOI = {10.1177/14661381251357072},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00029746},
}