Interdisciplinarity as Alternative Form of Process
Interdisciplinarity is a daily practice for research workers. Practice leads to use side paths, to take a step back from its own discipline and to question relevance of disciplinary borders. This process involves sometimes to call into question the main roads and to experience moments of fragility. This article defends this way of carrying out research. It relates three resourceful moments of interdisciplinarity which occurred during a research on media in Burkina Faso. The aim was to question relegation of African media studies to the outskirt of sociology of communication, to use anthropological methods and to resort to sociolinguistic in order to make materials research talk.