Abstract

PASQUALI, Paul. Combining Ethnography and Socio-History: From the Unity of the Social Sciences to the Complementarity of Methods. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2018, vol.54, n.1, pp.31-57. ISSN 0486-6525.  https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472x.381.

This article explores the historiographical, empirical, and theoretical challenges of combining ethnographic methods with sociohistory. It shows why and how the unity of the social sciences displays itself in the active complementarity of ethnography and sociohistory. The analysis of the concrete aspects of this complementarity allows us to reformulate the issue of interdisciplinarity beyond the discourse of “alliances” or “exchanges” between the disciplines. Against the prejudice that archives belong only to historians and the “field” to anthropologists and sociologists, we attempt to answer the following question: in what kind of historiographic work does this complementarity of methods originate, and what uses and categories does it refer to today concretely?

Keywords : ethnography; archives; interdisciplinarity; social sciences.

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