Intersubjectivity Beyond Species
Among all his anthropological reflections, Jean-Guy Goulet always seemed to wonder how to get along and live together. Inspired by his work and using his concepts of intersubjectivity and experiential ethnography, this article will bring together fieldwork and animals subjects. It explains how using those concepts actually helped us meet in Old Crow, not only Vuntut Gwich’in people, but also their dogs that occupy nearly most of the village, and invited us to propose a dog ethnography. Through a sensory ethnography, we will propose a way to consider animals as real ethnographic actors and subjects. After having raised the methodological and theoretical issues of such an ethnography, we will discuss how those concepts inspired from Jean-Guy Goulet’s work are relevant to study other than human, and can help us take anthropology beyond its dualistic world.