Towards ethnoscenology: from the theatrical metaphor to its conceptualization
In order to study the heuristic and epistemological inputs of theater, both metaphorically and conceptually, this article proposes first a genealogy of its usage through the history of ideas in sociology. In establishing thus the principled usage of the metaphor of theatre, the article illustrates its relevance for what is called a socioscenology, then, and also its relevance for a sociopoetic of everyday life, through an epistemological homology between the poet and the sociologist. Finally, the article proposes some methodological directions for this project, relying on the contributions of sociology and ethnoscenology.