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Social Science Information, Vol. 45, No. 2, 155-177 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0539018406063633

Etho-ethnology and ethno-ethology

Dominique Lestel

Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) in the Department of Cognitive Science; research team "Etho-Ecologie et Ethologie Cognitive" at the Laboratoire d’Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie of the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris)lestel{at}ens.fr

Florence Brunois

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Laboratoire Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie UMR 5145); Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France. brunois{at}mnhn.fr

Florence Gaunet

CNRS; Laboratoire Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris; Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie, UMR 5145, CP 135, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France; gaunet{at}mnhn.fr

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In this article we defend the idea that etho-ethnology and ethno-ethology should be combined into a new science at the interface between human and animal sciences. This new field would study the hybrid communities comprised of humans and animals sharing meaning, interests and affects, and would try to account for the complexity of interspecific sociabilities. The study cannot be reduced either to an ethology devoted strictly to animal behaviors or to an ethnology concerned exclusively with the life of humans in society.

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Dans cet article, nous défendons l'idée selon laquelle étho-ethnologie et ethno-éthologie doivent se combiner en une nouvelle science à l'interface des sciences de l'homme et des sciences de l'animal. Ce nouveau champ de recherche devra étudier les communautés hybrides homme/animal de partage de sens, d'intérêts et d'affects et devra rendre compte de la complexité des sociabilités interspécifiques. Une telle étude ne peut être réduite ni à une éthologie qui se consacre exclusivement à l'étude des comportements de l'animal, ni à une ethnologie qui étudie seulement la vie des humains en société.

Key Words: Ethno-ethology • Etho-ethnology • Hybrid communities • Interspecific associations • Shared complexity • Social complexity


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