Promenade dans les mondes vécus. les animaux peuvent-ils être des interlocuteurs de l'enquête socio-anthropologique?

Abstract

Starting from the intuition of a possible rapprochement between the formulation of the J v. Uexküll's project and those of some sociologists and anthropologists, this paper proposes a "sociologic reading" of the work of the biologist in order to re-examine the place given to animals in the analysis of problems and controversies in which they participate After a quick return on the natural sciences and social sciences that have seized the animals as objects of study, we emphasize the existence of an epistemological division that does full justice neither to animals of biologists, nor to humans of socio-anthropologists. We attempt to take seriously the relationship of animals with the worlds around them to contribute to a definition of animals really gone-taking of the collectives of humans and nonhumans that are takinq shape with and around them.