Linguistics, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology
Objects and methods are among the factors that do explain the differentiation between the disciplines of the social and human sciences. Many of these have yet adopted similar explanatory models : the philological one, the structural, the strategic and the neuronal ones. Such models do not only function as analytical tool boxes. They also seem to tell something about the very nature of the objects under scrutiny. Considering such an assessment and moving ahead of it enables us to reconsider major issues which appear to be strongly shared by such different disciplines as linguistics, anthropology and ethnomusicology. The notions of activity, action or practice, and the complex notion of meaning consequently acquire a renewed understanding.