De la déconstruction de l'ethnie au branchement des cultures: Un itinéraire intellectuel

Abstract

In this article, the author describes his professional trajectory as an anthropologist from his training years to his professional maturity and comments upon the successive stages in the development of his thinking. Starting with the deconstruction of the notion of "ethnic" group and its substitution with the notion of "métissage", Jean-Loup Amselle is led to question this latter notion and to replace it with the idea of "connections". This conceptual and theoretical evolution applies not only to exotic contexts - in particular African ones - but also to domestic situations, as in France, through the increasingly common use of the notion of multiculturalism. © Le Seuil. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.