Existential Anthropology and Phenomenography : 
How not to lose along the research pathway the human being, who is most often absorbed in sets and wholes, fragmented or put into brackets in favor to other entities, like action, relation or experience ? The author then suggests considering as the subject of existential anthropology the human being as he exists. In this point of view, what he calls phenomenography therefore insists on the significance of shadowing one individual at a time to observe how he exists, that is how he continues instant after instant. This implies on the one hand to study singularity rather than wholes and groups, the empirical unit rather than interactions, passivity rather than the sole action ; and on the other hand to reflect on the place of relations, the theoretical omnipresence in anthropology of which the author criticizes, and on the complex, always-mitigated human modes of presence.