De l’incident de terrain à l’écriture de l’évocation

Moving towards a collaborative epistemology between art and anthropology, this paper reflects upon a writing style that attempts to reduce the epistemic violence of ethnographic encounters. A brief history of the benefits of the crisis of representation (Writing Culture) is followed by hints on concepts of autoethnography, sensorial anthropology, and anthropology through the body. Drawing on a fieldwork on contemporary dance, the anthropologist highlights how a phenomenological description of dance can expand choreographers? questions that might be raised within the dance studio. Textual strategies are presented to support a more ethical and collaborative writing: a symmetrical dialogue with dance studies; the negotiation of generative terms; a writing based on the notion of evocation rather than representation; and finally, a sensorial, phenomenological and autoethnographic writing.