Anthropologist in Exile
How carry on the survey when the field changes radically ? The anthropologist faces two sorts of exile : the inner exile and the field exile. This paper investigates these two situations in the case of the semi-nomadic Kazakh people, their sedentarization in the 90’s and their path to modernity. How are we to change research tools in order to follow the transformations of the world and life of the informants ? How are we to work with local colleagues who, nowadays, practice an anthropology which was forbidden during the USSR period ?