(Hand)-crafting anthropology, Research methods. Walking, Photography and Knitting.
Research methods Walking,Photography and Knitting
Abstract
Resulting from a methodological experimentation at the crossroads of Art and Anthropology. This epis-temological reflection proposes alternative field work tools to conventional ethnographic methodology. Based mainly on linguistic knowledge of the ethnic group studied. By combining walking, photography and knitting as a means of participant observation and field research. All methods that have enabled us to gain a strong impregnation into the field. Means that support the respondents in expressing their traumatic experiences in the context of migratory issues. The creation of a body of knowledge based on the practice of sharing and the development of co-creative processes. Artistic practice will also have enabled people to symbolically re-inscribe themselves in the environment abandoned during childhood.
Keywords
Crafts, Photography, Knitting, Landscapes, environment, walking, archeological sites, communication, practices of share, co-creativity, trauma, uprooting, exile and anthropology.