Anthropology of the Fiction and Fictional Anthropology. An Example of « Ethnology at Home »
The anthropological utilisation of a Corsican novel contributes to the comprehension of the daily life of a village community, through the representations of an actor who is both actor and observer of his own society. This documentation is a means for anthropologists to construct an anthropology of the ordinary man and his daily life. It also questions the relations between anthropology and fiction.