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Jean Guiart, Methodology, Fieldworker, Debates and Politics in Ethnology

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Guiart designed a methodology that, instead of working with a single or a few informants, consisted in collecting exhaustive records or 'inventories' of all formalized social relations, which is necessary to understand kinship and social systems, and to translate the complexity of behaviours, strategies and relativity of norms, in the frame of various relational levels. Thus, he criticized structuralism's kinship models and functionalism's a-historical societies, with people following, possibly unconsciously, unchangeable ancestral rules. His long fieldwork practice made him aware of the various ways indigenous people use anthropologists, including himself, to get advantages from colonial administration, based on 'manipulations' of oral tradition. He is also well known for his frequent bitter criticisms of his colleagues and heated debates that ensued, particularly about New Caledonia.
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hal-04357174 , version 1 (21-12-2023)

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Jean-Louis Rallu. Jean Guiart, Methodology, Fieldworker, Debates and Politics in Ethnology. ASAO 2020 Jean Guiart, Ethnography as life's marathon, Lamont Lindstrom, Marc Tabani, Jan 2020, Hilo, Hawaii, United States. ⟨hal-04357174⟩
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